Acts 11-15

Question 1

(Acts 11) What gift does God grant to the Gentiles?

Answer 1

Repentance

Question 2

(Acts 11) What are the disciples first called at Antioch? What is the Church is guided by?

Answer 2

Christians, Revelation

Question 3

(Acts 11) Who criticized Peter when he went up to Jerusalem?

Answer 3

The circumcised believers, then Peter told them the whole story about his vision and had no further objections

Question 4

(Acts 11) What happened in Peter’s vision?

Answer 4

was in Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners. I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. Then I heard, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
“I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ voice spoke second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

Question 5

(Acts 11) What happened after Peter’s vision?

Answer 5

Right then three men sent to me Caesarea stopped at the house. The Spirit told me to go with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. He told us he had saw an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Peter. He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them.Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”

Question 6

(Acts 11) Who far did those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed travel?

Answer 6

Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch

they spread the word only to the Jews

Question 7

(Acts 11) Men from where, went to Antioch and started to share the gospel with the Greeks?

Answer 7

Cyprus and Cyrene

Question 8

(Acts 11) Who was sent to Antioch after hearing the good news of the gospel spreading?

Answer 8

Barnabas

Question 9

(Acts11 ) Who did Barnabas call for in Tarsus?

Answer 9

Saul

Question 10

(Acts 11) Who predicted through the Spirit a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world?

Answer 10

Agabus,
The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea. This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

Question 11

(Acts 12) Whose martyrdom is described? How did he die?

Answer 11

James (brother of John), sword

Question 12

(Acts 12) Who frees Peter from prison?

Answer 12

Angel

Question 13

(Acts 12) How does Herod die?

Answer 13

The Lord slays Herod by disease
He delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.

Question 14

(Acts 12) Why did Herod seize Peter as well? When did it occur?

Answer 14

He saw that it pleased the Jews and happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread

Question 15

(Acts 12) How many guards did Peter have on him? When did Herod intend to bring Peter out for trial?

Answer 15

four squads of four soldiers each, after the Passover

Question 16

(Acts 12) How did Peter escape the night before his trial?

Answer 16

Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. An angel appeared and struck Peter on the side and said “Quick, get up!” and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists. Then the angel said, “Put on your clothes and sandals. Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” Peter followed him he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.

Question 17

(Acts 12) Where did Peter go after his escape?

Answer 17

To the house of Mary, John also known as Mark’s house. When the servant Rhoda recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and said, “Peter is at the door!” “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.” Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. Peter described how the Lord had brought him out of prison then left for another place.

Question 18

(Acts 12) After finishing their mission in Antioch, Saul and Barnabas took who with them?

Answer 18

John, also called Mark

Question 19

(Acts 13) Who are called on missionary service?

Answer 19

Saul, now called Paul & Barnabas
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

Question 20

(Acts 13) Who is Christ a descendent of?

Answer 20

David

Question 21

(Acts 13) Who does Paul offer the gospel to?

Answer 21

Israel, then the Gentiles

Question 22

(Acts 13) Where do Barnabas and Paul proclaim the gospel? Who helps them?

Answer 22

they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper.

Question 23

(Acts 13) Who did Barnabas & Paul meet in Paphos and what did he try to do?

Answer 23

A Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, who was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

Question 24

(Acts 13) What happens to Elymas?

Answer 24

Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind for a time”

Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord.

Question 25

(Acts 13) Where did Barnabas & Paul go to preach the gospel?

Answer 25

Pisidian Antioch. On the Sabbath they entered the synagogue. The leaders ask if they had anything to say. Paul motioned with his hand and said: “Fellow Israelites and you Gentiles who worship God, listen to me! As Paul and Barnabas were leaving, the people invited them to speak further about these things. When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas. On the next Sabbath when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him. Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. Jewish leaders expelled them from their region.

Question 26

(Acts 14) What happened in Iconium?

Answer 26

Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. They spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles against the brothers. Paul and Barnabas spent time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders. The people were divided. There was a plot stone them. But they found out and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe where they continued to preach the gospel.

Question 27

(Acts 14) What happened in Lystra?

Answer 27

In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.

Question 28

(Acts 14) Who are hailed as Gods? What sacrifices are brought?

Answer 28

After healing the man, the people call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes (since he does all the talking)
The priest of Zeus brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

Question 29

(Acts 14) What happened when they heard about the sacrifices?

Answer 29

they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting about the gospel stating they were human as well, but they had trouble convincing the crowd from sacrificing to them
Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe. They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples.

Question 30

(Acts 14) Where did Barnabas and Paul go after?

Answer 30

Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church

Question 31

(Acts 15) What question arises at Antioch concerning circumcision?

Answer 31

Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

Question 32

(Acts 15) What was the answer?

Answer 32

God does not discriminate
“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Question 33

(Acts 15) The apostles send the letter and who else as a witness that the letter is true?

Answer 33

Paul & Barnabas chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas

Question 34

(Acts 15) What was the disagreement between Paul and Barnabas about?

Answer 34

Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord. He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.