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New Testament -> Acts

Acts Highlights

Those who heard the apostles speaking in tongues thought they were drunk.
Acts 2:13

Peter says that their strange behavior (speaking in tongues, etc.) was to be expected since they were living in “the last days.”
Acts 2:17

God will torture forever those who don’t know the password to heaven.
Acts 4:12

Peter and God scare Ananias and his wife to death for not forking over all of the money that they made when selling their land.
Acts 5:1-10

Philip made “unclean spirits” scream as they left the bodies of the people they possessed.
Acts 8:7

Peter has a dream in which God show him “wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls.” The voice (God’s?) says, “Rise, Peter: kill and eat.”
Acts 10:10-13

The “angel of the Lord” killed Herod by having him “eaten of worms” because “he gave not God the glory.”
Acts 12:23

Paul and the Holy Ghost conspire together to make Elymas (the sorcerer) blind.
Acts 13:8-11

God chooses those who will believe [the right things], and only they will go to heaven.
Acts 13:48

Sick people were cured by touching the handkerchief or apron of Paul. And the evil spirits when out of them.”
Acts 19:12

Evil spirits know Jesus and Paul. They also jump on people and strip them of their clothes.
Acts 19:15-16

The first Christian book burning occurs when Paul’s converts at Ephesus burn 50,000 silver pieces worth of books.
Acts 19:19

Eutychus was the first casualty of many long boring sermons.
Acts 20:9

Paul has kind words for everyone. Here he says, “God will smite thee, thou whited wall.”
Acts 23:3