“Bearing Thorough Witness” About God’s Kingdom “Bearing Thorough Witness” About God’s Kingdom Maps Title Page/Publishers’ Page Contents A Letter From the Governing Body INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 “Go . . . and Make Disciples” SECTION 1 SECTION 1 • ACTS 1:1–6:7 “You Have Filled Jerusalem With Your Teaching” CHAPTER 2 “You Will Be Witnesses of Me” CHAPTER 3 “Filled With Holy Spirit” CHAPTER 4 “Uneducated and Ordinary Men” CHAPTER 5 “We Must Obey God as Ruler” SECTION 2 SECTION 2 • ACTS 6:8–9:43 “Great Persecution Arose Against the Congregation” CHAPTER 6 Stephen—“Full of Divine Favor and Power” CHAPTER 7 Declaring “the Good News About Jesus” CHAPTER 8 The Congregation “Entered Into a Period of Peace” SECTION 3 SECTION 3 • ACTS 10:1–12:25 “People of the Nations . . . Accepted the Word of God” CHAPTER 9 “God Is Not Partial” CHAPTER 10 “The Word of Jehovah Went On Growing” SECTION 4 SECTION 4 • ACTS 13:1–14:28 “Sent Out by the Holy Spirit” CHAPTER 11 “Filled With Joy and Holy Spirit” CHAPTER 12 “Speaking With Boldness by the Authority of Jehovah” SECTION 5 SECTION 5 • ACTS 15:1-35 “The Apostles and the Elders Gathered Together” CHAPTER 13 “After Quite a Bit of Dissension” CHAPTER 14 “We Have Come to a Unanimous Decision” SECTION 6 SECTION 6 • ACTS 15:36–18:22 “Let Us Now Return and Visit the Brothers” CHAPTER 15 “Strengthening the Congregations” CHAPTER 16 “Step Over Into Macedonia” CHAPTER 17 “He Reasoned With Them From the Scriptures” CHAPTER 18 “Seek God, . . . and Really Find Him” CHAPTER 19 “Keep On Speaking and Do Not Keep Silent” SECTION 7 SECTION 7 • ACTS 18:23–21:17 “Teaching . . . Publicly and From House to House” CHAPTER 20 “Growing and Prevailing” Despite Opposition CHAPTER 21 “I Am Clean From the Blood of All Men” CHAPTER 22 “Let the Will of Jehovah Take Place” SECTION 8 SECTION 8 • ACTS 21:18–28:31 “Preaching the Kingdom of God . . . Without Hindrance” CHAPTER 23 “Hear My Defense” CHAPTER 24 “Take Courage!” CHAPTER 25 “I Appeal to Caesar!” CHAPTER 26 “Not One of You Will Be Lost” CHAPTER 27 “Bearing Thorough Witness” CONCLUSION CHAPTER 28 “To the Most Distant Part of the Earth” Image Index