Apostle Paul Sample Alternate Script
From SPARK
Unpublished
Paul, the Apostle Filmstrip Sweet Publishing Company Script
P–1 Title frame
P–2 Credits
P–3 During the forty days following his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples from time to time. He spoke to them about the kingdom of God.
P–4 On one such occasion, Jesus said to the disciples: “Stay in Jerusalem and wait for the gift that my Father has promised. In a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
P–5 The disciples asked, “Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel now?” Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.”
P–6 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,” Jesus continued. “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
P–7 After Jesus said this, he was taken up into the sky before their very eyes, until a cloud hid him from sight. They were still looking up into the sky when suddenly two angels appeared beside them.
P–8 The angels said, “Why do you stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back in the same way.”
P–9 So the disciples returned to Jerusalem. All the apostles, except Judas, were together. Some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers were with them. They devoted themselves to prayer.When the day of Pentecost, the great Jewish festival, came, Jesus’ disciples were all gathered in Jerusalem. It was just ten days since Jesus had gone up into heaven.
P–10 Suddenly, a sound like a strong wind filled the house where they were sitting. What looked like flames of fire rested on each of them, and they began to speak in other languages.
P–11 Because it was a holy day, Jews had come to Jerusalem from all nations. Hearing the noise, a large crowd gathered. They were surprised to hear the apostles speaking their own languages.
P–12 “Aren’t these men Galileans?” they asked. “How can they be talking about the wonders of God in our languages?” But some said, “They have just had too much wine.”
P–13 Then Peter spoke to the crowd: “These men are not drunk. This is what the prophet Joel spoke about: ‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will send my Spirit upon all people and they will prophesy’.”
P–14 “Listen, Jesus of Nazareth was a man through whom God worked miracles and signs, as you yourselves know. But you had Jesus nailed to a cross. Yet God raised him from the dead!”
P–15 “We are witnesses that God has raised Jesus to life and has put him at his right hand—the place of supreme authority. And Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit upon us, as he promised. This is what you see and hear.”
P–16 “You may be sure that God has appointed Jesus, whom you crucified, to be both Lord and Christ—the Messiah!”
P–17 These words deeply affected the crowd. “What shall we do?” they asked Peter and the apostles.
P–18 Peter answered, “Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
P–19 So those who accepted Peter’s message were baptized. About three thousand people were added to the group of believers that very day.
P–20 The believers spent their time listening to the apostles teach, having fellowship with each other, sharing with those in need, and praying. Their hearts were filled with joy.
P–21 When Stephen was stoned, the witnesses placed their garments in the care of a man named Saul. Saul began to persecute the church in Jerusalem, throwing both men and women into prison.
P–22 Saul then asked the high priest to write letters on his behalf to the leaders of the synagogues in Damascus. He wanted permission to arrest any Christians he found there and to bring them back to Jerusalem.
P–23 Obtaining this authority, Saul went to Damascus. But when he got near the city, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.
P–24 Saul fell to the ground. He heard a voice say, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” the voice replied.
P–25 The Lord also said, “Get up and go into the city. You will be told what you must do.” The men who were with Saul stood there speechless, for they heard the sound, but they saw no one.
P–26 When Saul got up from the ground, he could not see. He had to be led by the hand into Damascus. For the next three days, he was blind. He neither ate nor drank anything during that time.
P–27 In Damascus, there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision and said, “Ananias!” “Yes, Lord,” he answered.
P–28 The Lord said, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man named Saul. In a vision, Saul has seen you come and place your hands on him to restore his sight.”
P–29 Ananias replied, “But Lord, I have heard about all the harm this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem. He has come here with authority to arrest all who call on your name in prayer.”
P–30 But the Lord said, “Go! I have chosen this man to proclaim my name before the Gentiles and before the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”
P–31 So Ananias went to Saul and placed his hands on him. He said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you, sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
P–32 Immediately, Saul was able to see again. He got up and was baptized. After he ate, he regained his strength. Thus did Saul, an enemy of the believers, become a servant of Jesus.
P–33 Saul spent several days with the disciples of Jesus in Damascus.
P–34 Right away he began to preach about Jesus in the synagogues of the Jews. “Jesus is the Son of God,” he said.
P–35 All the Jews who heard him were amazed. They asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who persecuted the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem? Didn’t he come here to arrest the believers here?”
P–36 Yet Saul grew more and more powerful in proclaiming his faith in Jesus. His proofs that Jesus is the Christ were so strong that the Jews of Damascus did not know how to answer him.
P–37 Finally, after many days had gone by, the Jews made plans to kill Saul. They kept a close watch on the city gates day and night, hoping to capture him.
P–38 But Saul found out about their plot. One night his followers lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall, and Saul escaped from Damascus.
P–39 He then went to Jerusalem, where he tried to join the disciples. But they were afraid of him. They could not believe that he was a disciple.
P–40 Then Barnabas helped Saul. He told the apostles how Saul had seen the Lord on his journey. He also told them how Saul had fearlessly preached about Jesus in Damascus.
P–41 After that, Saul stayed with the disciples and went about Jerusalem, boldly proclaiming the name of Jesus. He debated with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to kill him.
P–42 When the believers learned of this, they took Saul down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus, his hometown.
P–43 Then the believers throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace. They were strengthened and encouraged by the Holy Spirit. And the number of disciples continued to grow.
P–44 One night Paul had a vision. He saw a man who pleaded with him saying, “Come over here to Macedonia and help us.” So Paul and his companions sailed to Macedonia. Then they traveled inland to Philippi. There Lydia and all her household responded to Paul’s message about Jesus and became Christians.
P–45 One day as Paul was going to the place of prayer, he met a slave girl. She had a spirit by which she predicted the future.
P–46 This girl followed Paul’s group, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God. They are telling you the way to be saved.” She did this day after day.
P–47 Finally Paul turned to her and said to the spirit in her, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her.” And the spirit left her that very moment.
P–48 This made her owners very unhappy, because they had made a great deal of money from her fortune telling—which this spirit had enabled her to do. So they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the marketplace.
P–49 There the magistrates of the city had Paul and Silas stripped and beaten and thrown into prison. They told the jailer to guard them carefully.
P–50 So the jailer put them in an inner cell and fastened their feet in stocks. About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns. The other prisoners were listening.
P–51 Suddenly there was a violent earthquake! The very foundations of the prison were shaken and all the doors suddenly flew open! Everyone’s chains came loose!
P–52 When the jailer awoke and saw the open doors, he thought his prisoners had escaped. As he was about to kill himself, Paul shouted, “Don’t hurt yourself! We are all here!”
P–53 The jailer brought Paul and Silas out and asked them, “What must I do to be saved?” They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.” Then they spoke the word of the Lord to the jailer and his household.
P–54 The jailer washed their wounds, and then he and his household were baptized. His whole family was filled with joy because they had become believers.
P–55 The next day the magistrates sent word to release them. But Paul insisted that the magistrates themselves escort them out. Then they encouraged the believers at Lydia’s house and left for Thessalonica.
P–56 After preaching in Thessalonica and Berea, Paul went on to Athens. Timothy and Silas stayed for a time in Berea.
P–57 Paul was saddened to see that Athens was full of idols. On the Sabbath he spoke in the synagogues to the Jews, and every day he talked to the people who came to the marketplace.
P–58 The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with Paul. Some said, “What is this babbler saying?” And because Paul was preaching about Jesus and his resurrection, others said, “He seems to be talking about foreign gods.”
P–59 They invited Paul to the Areopagus. “Tell us what this new teaching of your is,” they said. “You are saying some strange things, and we want to know what they mean.”
P–60 So Paul said: “Men of Athens! I see that you are very religious. For as I walked around, I found an altar with the words: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.”
P–61 “It is this God whom you do not know that I proclaim. The God who made the world and everybody in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He does not live in temples built by men.”
P–62 “He gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men. Some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his children’.”
P–63 “Since we are God’s children, we should not think that God is like something made from gold or silver or stone—an image made by men.”
P–64 “In the past God overlooked such ignorance,” Paul said. “But now he commands all people everywhere to repent.”
P–65 “God has set a day when he will judge the world by the man he has appointed. He has given proof that Jesus is this appointed judge by raising him from the dead.”
P–66 When the philosophers heard Paul mention the resurrection of the dead, some laughed at him. But others said, “We want to hear you talk about this again.”
P–67 After Paul left the Areopagus, a few people joined him and believed. One of these was a man named Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus. Another was a woman named Damaris.
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