Topics Not Included in UPDV from Acts and Luke 1-2
The UPDV's translation scope deliberately excludes the book of Acts and the first two chapters of Luke. Topics whose only scriptural anchor falls in those chapters therefore have no UPDV verse to point to. They are listed here so that readers searching for a person, place, or subject can confirm the topic is genuinely scriptural even when UPDV does not carry the text. For the reasoning behind these exclusions, see the Luke article and the Acts article. For the underlying verses, consult the ASV (which UPDV revises) or another translation.
Acts
ADRAMYTTIUM — Mysian port whose ship carried Paul, Aristarchus, and the centurion's company along the coast of Asia at the start of the voyage to Rome. Acts 27:2.
ADRIA — Sea across which Paul's ship was driven for fourteen nights before the sailors sensed land near. Acts 27:27.
AENEAS — Paralyzed man at Lydda who had kept his bed eight years and was healed by Peter in the name of Jesus Christ. Acts 9:33-34.
AGABUS — Prophet who foretold by the Spirit a great famine in the days of Claudius and later came down from Judaea to meet Paul at Caesarea. Acts 11:28; 21:10.
AGRIPPA — King before whom Festus brought Paul for examination so that charges could be drafted for the emperor. Acts 25:26.
AMPHIPOLIS — Macedonian city through which Paul and Silas passed on the way from Philippi to Thessalonica. Acts 17:1.
ANTIPATRIS — Town to which the soldiers brought Paul by night while transferring him from Jerusalem toward Caesarea. Acts 23:31.
APOLLONIA — Macedonian city through which Paul and Silas passed between Amphipolis and Thessalonica. Acts 17:1.
APPII-FORUM — Market town in Italy (The Market of Appius) where Roman brethren came out to meet Paul on his approach to Rome. Acts 28:15.
AREOPAGUS — Mars' Hill in Athens, where Paul was brought to explain his new teaching to the philosophers. Acts 17:19.
ASSOS — Seaport in Mysia where Paul rejoined his companions by appointment after traveling overland, then sailed with them to Mitylene. Acts 20:13-14.
ATTALIA — Seaport of Pamphylia from which Paul and Barnabas departed after preaching at Perga. Acts 14:25.
BABBLER — Sarcastic epithet flung at Paul by Epicurean and Stoic philosophers in Athens when he preached Jesus and the resurrection. Acts 17:18.
BAR-JESUS — Jewish sorcerer and false prophet encountered by Paul and Barnabas at Paphos on Cyprus. Acts 13:6.
BARSABAS — Surname of two early Christians: Joseph called Barsabbas (also Justus), put forward with Matthias as a candidate to replace Judas; and Judas called Barsabbas, sent with Silas from Jerusalem to Antioch with the apostolic decree. Acts 1:23; 15:22.
BEREA — City in southern Macedonia where Paul and Silas preached in the synagogue, until Thessalonian Jews followed and stirred up the crowds; later home of Paul's companion Sopater. Acts 17:10,13; 20:4.
BLASTUS — King Herod's chamberlain, befriended by envoys from Tyre and Sidon as they sought peace with the king. Acts 12:20.
CANDACE — Queen of the Ethiopians, under whom served the eunuch treasurer baptized by Philip on the road to Gaza. Acts 8:27.
CASTOR AND POLLUX — Figurehead twin brothers serving as the sign of the Alexandrian ship in which Paul sailed from Malta after wintering on the island. Acts 28:11.
CHANGE OF VENUE — Paul's case is twice transferred: Claudius Lysias sends him under armed escort from Jerusalem to Felix at Caesarea after a plot against his life, and Paul later refuses Festus' offer to be tried at Jerusalem by appealing instead to Caesar. Acts 23:17-35; 25:9-11.
CHIOS — Aegean island west of Smyrna passed on Paul's voyage from Troas toward Miletus. Acts 20:15.
CLAUDA — Small island near Crete (better manuscripts read Cauda) under whose lee Paul's storm-tossed ship ran while the crew struggled to secure the lifeboat. Acts 27:16.
CLAUDIUS — Roman emperor in whose reign the prophesied great famine occurred and who expelled the Jews from Rome, prompting Aquila and Priscilla's move to Corinth. Acts 11:28; 18:2.
CLAUDIUS LYSIUS — Roman chief captain of the Jerusalem garrison who rescued Paul from the temple mob, learned he was a Roman citizen, foiled an assassination plot, and dispatched him under guard with a letter to governor Felix. Acts 21:31-40; 22:23-30; 23:10-35.
CLERK — The townclerk of Ephesus, who quieted the mob in the theater by appealing to the city's standing as temple-keeper of Diana. Acts 19:35.
CNIDUS — City on the southwest coast of Asia Minor that Paul's ship reached with difficulty before turning south under the lee of Crete. Acts 27:7.
COOS — Mediterranean island on which Paul made landfall the day after leaving Miletus, en route to Rhodes and Patara. Acts 21:1.
CORNELIUS — Roman centurion of the Italian band stationed at Caesarea, a devout and God-fearing man who gave alms and prayed continually; an angel directed him to send for Peter, and during Peter's visit the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius and his household — the first Gentile reception of the gospel. Acts 10.
DAMARIS — A woman of Athens who believed after hearing Paul preach at the Areopagus. Acts 17:34.
DIANA — Goddess of the Ephesians, worshipped at her great temple, whose silver shrines were the trade of Demetrius and the silversmiths who rioted against Paul. Acts 19:24, 27-28, 35.
DIONYSIUS — Member of the Areopagus court at Athens who became a convert under Paul's preaching. Acts 17:34.
DORCAS — Pious disciple at Joppa, also called Tabitha, known for good works and almsdeeds and for the coats and garments she made for the widows; she fell sick and died, and Peter raised her up. Acts 9:36-42.
DRUSILLA — Jewish wife of the procurator Felix, present when Paul reasoned with her husband concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. Acts 24:24.
DYSENTERY — Affliction of the father of Publius on Malta, who lay sick of fever and dysentery and was healed by Paul's prayer and laying on of hands. Acts 28:8.
EASTER (A.V.) — King James rendering at Acts 12:4 of the term elsewhere translated "Passover," after which Herod intended to bring Peter forth to the people. Acts 12:4.
ELYMAS — Jewish sorcerer at Paphos, also called Bar-Jesus, who withstood Paul and Barnabas before the proconsul Sergius Paulus and was struck blind for seeking to turn him from the faith. Acts 13:8, 10.
EUROCLYDON — Tempestuous wind (also called Euraquilo) that beat down from Crete and drove the ship carrying Paul toward shipwreck. Acts 27:14.
EUTYCHUS — Young man at Troas who, overcome by sleep during Paul's long discourse, fell from a third-story window and was taken up dead, then restored to life by Paul. Acts 20:9-11.
FAIR HAVENS — Harbor on the coast of Crete near the city of Lasea where Paul's ship put in with difficulty during the voyage to Rome. Acts 27:8.
FATHOM — Unit of depth used by the sailors taking soundings off Malta, who found twenty fathoms and then fifteen. Acts 27:28.
FESTUS — Porcius Festus, Roman governor of Judaea who succeeded Felix and inherited Paul's case; he heard Paul's defense at Caesarea, granted his appeal to Caesar, and brought him before King Agrippa for examination. Acts 24:27; 25:1-12; 25:26.
FREEDMEN — Members of the Synagogue of the Libertines, who together with Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men of Cilicia and Asia disputed with Stephen. Acts 6:9.
GALLIO — Proconsul of Achaia who refused to adjudicate the Jews' charges against Paul at Corinth, dismissing the matter as a question of their own law and driving the accusers from the judgment-seat. Acts 18:12-17.
GARLANDS — Wreaths brought with oxen by the priest of Jupiter at Lystra, intending to offer sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas after the healing of the lame man. Acts 14:13.
HANDKERCHIEF — Cloth carried from Paul's body to the sick at Ephesus, through which diseases departed and evil spirits went out. Acts 19:12.
JAILER (JAILOR) — Keeper of the Philippian prison who, after the earthquake loosed Paul and Silas's bonds, was kept from suicide by Paul, asked what he must do to be saved, and was baptized with all his house that same night. Acts 16:27-34.
JULIUS — Centurion of the Augustan band entrusted with Paul and other prisoners on the voyage to Italy; he treated Paul kindly at Sidon and later spared the prisoners' lives during the shipwreck off Malta. Acts 27:1,3,43.
JUPITER — Roman name for Zeus; the Lystran crowd hailed Barnabas as Jupiter (and Paul as Mercury) after Paul healed a cripple, and the local priest of Jupiter brought oxen to sacrifice; the Ephesian townclerk also referenced an image that "fell down from Jupiter." Acts 14:12-13; 19:35.
LASEA — A city of Crete, near the harbor called Fair Havens where Paul's ship sheltered on the voyage to Rome. Acts 27:8.
LIBERTINES — Members of a Jerusalem synagogue (freedmen) who, with Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and others from Cilicia and Asia, disputed with Stephen. Acts 6:9.
LYCAONIA — A region of Asia Minor including Lystra, Derbe, and Iconium; Paul fled there from persecution, healed a cripple, was hailed in the Lycaonian tongue, was stoned at Lystra, and on a later visit recruited Timothy. Acts 14:6-21; 16:1-2.
LYCIA — A coastal province of Asia Minor; Paul's Rome-bound ship landed at Myra in Lycia after sailing the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia. Acts 27:5.
LYSIAS — Roman chief captain (tribune) of the Jerusalem garrison who took Paul from a mob and whose later arrival Felix awaited before ruling on Paul's case; also called Claudius Lysias. Acts 24:7, 22.
MANAEN — Foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch and a prophet-teacher in the Antioch church alongside Barnabas, Symeon Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Saul. Acts 13:1.
MARS' HILL — Athenian hill (the Areopagus) where Paul, brought before the council, preached from the inscription "TO AN UNKNOWN GOD" and won converts including Dionysius the Areopagite and Damaris. Acts 17:19-34.
MATTHIAS — Disciple, surnamed Justus alongside Joseph Barsabbas as the two candidates put forward to replace Judas; chosen by lot and numbered with the eleven apostles. Acts 1:15-26.
MELITA (MALTA) — Mediterranean island where Paul was shipwrecked; the natives treated the survivors with unusual kindness, Paul shook off a viper unharmed, and he healed the father of the chief man Publius along with others on the island. Acts 28:1-10.
MERCURIUS — Pagan god (Mercury to the Romans, Hermes to the Greeks); after the healing at Lystra the Lycaonian crowd took Paul for Mercury because he was the chief speaker, and called Barnabas Jupiter. Acts 14:11-12.
MITYLENE — Capital of Lesbos; Paul put in there after meeting his companions at Assos on the voyage toward Jerusalem. Acts 20:14-15.
MNASON — Native of Cyprus and an early disciple who hosted Paul and his companions on their way up to Jerusalem. Acts 21:16.
MYRA — City of Lycia where the centurion transferred Paul and the other prisoners onto an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy. Acts 27:5-6.
MYSIA — Province of Asia Minor; Paul and his companions came opposite it intending to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus prevented them, and they passed by Mysia down to Troas. Acts 16:7-8.
NEAPOLIS — Seaport of Macedonia where Paul landed after sailing from Troas by way of Samothrace, his entry point onto European soil. Acts 16:11.
NICANOR — One of the seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and wisdom, chosen by the Jerusalem congregation to serve at the daily distribution. Acts 6:5.
NICOLAS — A proselyte of Antioch, chosen as one of the seven set before the apostles to serve the Jerusalem congregation. Acts 6:5-6.
NIGER — Surname (meaning "black") of Symeon, listed among the prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch. Acts 13:1.
NOLLE PROSEQUI — Refusal of the Achaian proconsul Gallio to prosecute the complaint brought against Paul, dismissing it as a matter of Jewish words and names rather than civil wrong. Acts 18:12-17.
PAPHOS — City of Cyprus where Paul, encountering the sorcerer Bar-Jesus (Elymas), struck him blind and won the proconsul Sergius Paulus to faith. Acts 13:6-13.
PARMENAS — One of the seven chosen by the Jerusalem disciples and set before the apostles for service. Acts 6:5.
PARTHIANS — Inhabitants of Parthia, northwest of Persia, named among those present at Pentecost who heard the apostles speak in their own tongue. Acts 2:9.
PATARA — Lycian port city in Asia Minor where Paul, sailing from Rhodes, transferred to a ship bound for Phoenicia. Acts 21:1-2.
PERGA — Capital of Pamphylia where Paul and his company arrived from Paphos (and where John Mark departed from them), and where they later spoke the word before going down to Attalia. Acts 13:13-14; 14:25.
PHENICE — Harbor of Crete (also called Phenicia, Phoenicia) which Paul's shipmates hoped to reach for winter before the storm drove them off course. Acts 27:12-13, 21.
PHRYGIA — Inland province of Asia Minor; people from there were among those at Pentecost in Jerusalem, and Paul passed through the region twice during his missionary travels. Acts 2:10; 16:6; 18:23.
PISIDIA — Province in Asia Minor traversed by Paul and Barnabas, who preached in the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia and later passed through the region again on their way to Pamphylia. Acts 13:14; 14:24.
PROCHORUS — One of the seven men full of faith chosen by the Jerusalem church to serve alongside Stephen and Philip. Acts 6:5.
PUBLIUS — Chief man of Melita (Malta) who received Paul and his companions courteously for three days; Paul healed his father of fever and dysentery. Acts 28:7-8.
PUTEOLI — Seaport of Italy where Paul found brethren and stayed seven days on his journey to Rome. Acts 28:13-14.
QUATERNION — Squad of four soldiers; Herod assigned four such squads to guard the imprisoned Peter. Acts 12:4.
RHEGIUM — City of Italy where Paul's ship put in on the way to Rome, departing the next day when a south wind sprang up. Acts 28:13.
RHODA — Maid at the house of Mary mother of John Mark in Jerusalem who recognized Peter's voice at the gate but, in her joy, ran to tell the others without letting him in. Acts 12:13-16.
RHODES — Aegean island where Paul's ship put in for a day on the return voyage from Miletus toward Jerusalem, between Cos and Patara. Acts 21:1.
SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY — The limited distance permissible for travel on the sabbath, used to describe the short stretch from the Mount of Olives back to Jerusalem after the ascension. Acts 1:12.
SALAMIS — City on the island of Cyprus where Paul and Barnabas, sent out by the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues with John as their attendant. Acts 13:4-5.
SALMONE — Promontory on the eastern end of Crete past which Paul's ship sailed when contrary winds forced it under the lee of the island. Acts 27:7.
SAMOS — Aegean island off the coast of Asia Minor at which Paul's vessel touched on the day after passing Chios, on the way to Miletus. Acts 20:15.
SAMOTHRACIA (SAMOTHRACE) — Aegean island where Paul's ship put in for a night on the straight course from Troas to Neapolis during the second missionary journey. Acts 16:11.
SAPPHIRA — Wife of Ananias who joined her husband in selling a possession, keeping back part of the price, and lying about it; struck dead at Peter's feet three hours after Ananias and buried beside him. Acts 5:1-10.
SCALES — Substance that fell from Saul's eyes at Damascus when Ananias laid hands on him, restoring his sight so he could be baptized. Acts 9:18.
SCEVA — Jewish chief priest at Ephesus whose seven sons attempted to invoke the name of Jesus over a demoniac and were overpowered, fleeing the house naked and wounded. Acts 19:13-17.
SECUNDUS — Thessalonian Christian who, with Aristarchus and others, accompanied Paul from Greece as far as Asia at the close of the third missionary journey. Acts 20:4-6.
SEDITION — Charge brought against Paul by Tertullus before Felix, accusing him of being a mover of insurrections among the Jews; the same term Luke applies to the earlier movements of Theudas and Judas of Galilee, whose followings were dispersed. Acts 5:36-37; 24:5.
SELEUCIA — Syrian seaport from which Paul and Barnabas, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, sailed to Cyprus at the start of the first missionary journey. Acts 13:4.
SERGEANT — Lictor (serjeant) of Philippi sent by the magistrates to release Paul and Silas; when the magistrates learned the men were Romans they feared and came in person to escort them out of the city. Acts 16:35-38.
SERGIUS PAULUS — Proconsul of Cyprus, "a man of understanding," who summoned Paul and Barnabas to hear the word and believed when the sorcerer Elymas was struck blind. Acts 13:7-8,12.
SHEET — Great vessel "as it were a sheet" let down from heaven by four corners in Peter's vision at Joppa, containing all manner of beasts and creeping things. Acts 10:11.
SHRINE — Silver model of the temple of Diana made by the Ephesian craftsmen under Demetrius the silversmith, whose trade Paul's preaching threatened. Acts 19:24.
SILVERSMITH — Trade of Demetrius of Ephesus, maker of silver shrines for Diana, who roused the craftsmen against Paul out of concern for their livelihood. Acts 19:24.
SIMONY — Simon Magus's offer of money to the apostles for the power to bestow the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands; sharply rebuked by Peter. Acts 8:18-19.
SOPATER — Berean Christian, son of Pyrrhus, who accompanied Paul as far as Asia at the close of the third missionary journey. Acts 20:4.
SOUNDING — Soundings taken by the sailors off Malta during the storm, finding first twenty and then fifteen fathoms as land approached. Acts 27:28.
STEPHEN — One of the seven, full of grace and power, who wrought wonders and signs; disputed with the Synagogue of the Libertines, was charged with blasphemy, delivered a long defense before the council, and was stoned outside the city while Saul looked on, becoming the first Christian martyr. Acts 6:5-15; 7; 8:1-2; 22:20.
STRANGLED — Among the four prohibitions in the apostolic decree to Gentile believers, alongside abstention from idols, blood, and fornication. Acts 15:20,29; 21:25.
SYRACUSE — Sicilian port where Paul's Alexandrian ship tarried three days on the final leg of the voyage to Rome. Acts 28:12.
TABITHA — Joppa disciple, also called Dorcas, full of good works and almsdeeds; she sickened and died, and Peter raised her up at the request of the widows. Acts 9:36-41.
TANNING — Trade of Simon the tanner of Joppa, with whom Peter lodged many days and where he was staying when Cornelius's messengers arrived. Acts 9:43; 10:5-6.
TERTULLUS — Hired orator who pleaded the high priest Ananias's case against Paul before Felix at Caesarea. Acts 24:1-2.
THEATER — Public theater of Ephesus into which the rioting crowd rushed, dragging Paul's companions Gaius and Aristarchus; the friendly Asiarchs warned Paul not to venture in. Acts 19:29,31.
THEUDAS — Earlier Jewish insurrectionist named by Gamaliel before the Sanhedrin as a cautionary precedent for leaving the apostles alone; he gave himself out to be somebody, was slain, and his followers dispersed. Acts 5:36.
THREE TAVERNS — Italian halting-place on the Appian Way where Roman brethren came out to meet Paul, encouraging him as he approached the capital. Acts 28:15.
TIMON — One of the seven set before the apostles by the Jerusalem congregation to serve at the daily distribution. Acts 6:5.
TOWN CLERK — Civic officer of Ephesus who quieted the rioting theater crowd by appealing to the city's standing as temple-keeper of Diana and warning of Roman charges of riot. Acts 19:35.
TROGYLLIUM — Promontory near Samos referenced in older topical entries at Acts 20:15 (named in TR/KJV between Samos and Miletus; the ASV main text passes from Samos directly to Miletus). Acts 20:15.
TYRANNUS — Ephesian whose school served as Paul's daily lecture hall for two years after he withdrew from the synagogue, so that all in Asia heard the word. Acts 19:9-10.
Luke 1-2
ANNA — Prophetess, daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher, widowed after seven years of marriage and serving in the temple with fastings and prayers night and day to the age of eighty-four. Luke 2:36-37.
CYRENIUS (QUIRINIUS) — Governor of Syria (also called Quirinius) at the time of the first enrollment, the census occasioning Joseph and Mary's journey to Bethlehem. Luke 2:2.
ELISABETH (ELIZABETH) — Wife of the priest Zacharias and a daughter of Aaron, kinswoman of Mary; barren and well stricken in years, she conceived and bore John the Baptist, and was filled with the Holy Spirit when Mary greeted her. Luke 1:5-60.
MAGNIFICAT — Mary's song of praise after the annunciation, magnifying the Lord, exalting the lowly and scattering the proud, and recalling God's mercy to Abraham's seed. Luke 1:46-55.
THEOPHILUS — "Most excellent" addressee to whom Luke dedicates both his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1.