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Homilies on the Acts

St John Chrysostom · Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1889

What this is

Fifty-five homilies on the Acts of the Apostles — the only complete patristic commentary on the book to survive from the first four centuries.

How it survives

Preached at Constantinople in 400 or 401 and preserved in Greek, though in a text the editors describe as the worst-transmitted of all his works.

What is here

All 55, complete and in order.

Reading it beside the gospel

Each piece carries the verses it is on and a door straight into that chapter of The Acts; each chapter of the gospel offers the pieces that expound it. A piece covers from its own text to the next one’s, so a chapter nobody began a sermon on is still reached by the sermon it falls inside.

The homilies

  1. 1 Upon Acts 1:1, 2
  2. 2 Upon Acts 1:6
  3. 3 Upon Acts 1:12
  4. 4 Upon Acts 2:1, 2
  5. 5 Upon Acts 2:14
  6. 6 Upon Acts 2:22
  7. 7 Upon Acts 2:37
  8. 8 Upon Acts 3:1
  9. 9 Upon Acts 3:12
  10. 10 Upon Acts 4:1
  11. 11 Upon Acts 4:23
  12. 12 Upon Acts 4:36, 37
  13. 13 Upon Acts 5:17, 18
  14. 14 Upon Acts 5:34
  15. 15 Upon Acts 6:8
  16. 16 Upon Acts 7:6, 7
  17. 17 Upon Acts 7:35
  18. 18 Upon Acts 7:54
  19. 19 Upon Acts 8:26, 27
  20. 20 Upon Acts 9:10, 12
  21. 21 Upon Acts 9:26, 27
  22. 22 Upon Acts 10:1-4
  23. 23 Upon Acts 10:23, 24
  24. 24 Upon Acts 10:44, 46
  25. 25 Upon Acts 11:19
  26. 26 Upon Acts 12:1, 2
  27. 27 Upon Acts 12:18, 19
  28. 28 Upon Acts 13:4, 5
  29. 29 Upon Acts 13:16, 17
  30. 30 Upon Acts 13:42
  31. 31 Upon Acts 14:14, 15
  32. 32 Upon Acts 15:1
  33. 33 Upon Acts 15:13, 15
  34. 34 Upon Acts 15:35
  35. 35 Upon Acts 16:13, 14
  36. 36 Upon Acts 16:25, 26
  37. 37 Upon Acts 17:1, 2, 3
  38. 38 Upon Acts 17:16, 17
  39. 39 Upon The Acts
  40. 40 Upon Acts 18:18
  41. 41 Upon Acts 19:8, 9
  42. 42 Upon Acts 19:21, 23
  43. 43 Upon Acts 20:1
  44. 44 Upon Acts 20:17-21
  45. 45 Upon Acts 20:32
  46. 46 Upon Acts 21:18, 19
  47. 47 Upon Acts 21:39, 40
  48. 48 Upon Acts 22:17-20
  49. 49 Upon Acts 23:6-8
  50. 50 Upon Acts 23:31, 32, 33
  51. 51 Upon Acts 24:22, 23
  52. 52 Upon Acts 25:23
  53. 53 Upon Acts 26:30-32
  54. 54 Upon Acts 28:1
  55. 55 Upon Acts 28:17-20
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Text: St John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Acts — the translation in Philip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, volume 11, 1889 — public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. All 55 are here.