Acts 11 - Quote Cards

Question 1

11:9

Answer 1

“But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.’

Question 2

11:6

Answer 2

When I looked inside the sheet, I saw all sorts of tame and wild animals, reptiles, and birds.

Question 3

11:1

Answer 3

Soon the news reached the apostles and other believers in Judea that the Gentiles had received the word of God.

Question 4

11:8

Answer 4

“‘No, Lord,’ I replied. ‘I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure or unclean.’

Question 5

11:4

Answer 5

Then Peter told them exactly what had happened.

Question 6

11:5

Answer 6

“I was in the town of Joppa,” he said, “and while I was praying, I went into a trance and saw a vision. Something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners from the sky. And it came right down to me.

Question 7

11:2

Answer 7

But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers criticized him.

Question 8

11:7

Answer 8

And I heard a voice say, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.’

Question 9

11:3

Answer 9

“You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!” they said.

Question 10

11:11

Answer 10

“Just then three men who had been sent from Caesarea arrived at the house where we were staying.

Question 11

11:13

Answer 11

He told us how an angel had appeared to him in his home and had told him, ‘Send messengers to Joppa, and summon a man named Simon Peter.

Question 12

11:15

Answer 12

“As I began to speak,” Peter continued, “the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning.

Question 13

11:18

Answer 13

When the others heard this, they stopped objecting and began praising God. They said, “We can see that God has also given the Gentiles the privilege of repenting of their sins and receiving eternal life.”

Question 14

11:17

Answer 14

And since God gave these Gentiles the same gift he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to stand in God’s way?”

Question 15

11:16

Answer 15

Then I thought of the Lord’s words when he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

Question 16

11:12

Answer 16

The Holy Spirit told me to go with them and not to worry that they were Gentiles. These six brothers here accompanied me, and we soon entered the home of the man who had sent for us.

Question 17

11:10

Answer 17

This happened three times before the sheet and all it contained was pulled back up to heaven.

Question 18

11:19

Answer 18

Meanwhile, the believers who had been scattered during the persecution after Stephen’s death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They preached the word of God, but only to Jews.

Question 19

11:14

Answer 19

He will tell you how you and everyone in your household can be saved!’

Question 20

11:28

Answer 20

One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.)

Question 21

11:27

Answer 21

During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Question 22

11:22

Answer 22

When the church at Jerusalem heard what had happened, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Question 23

11:25

Answer 23

Then Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul.

Question 24

11:29

Answer 24

So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could.

Question 25

11:24

Answer 25

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith. And many people were brought to the Lord.

Question 26

11:23

Answer 26

When he arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord.

Question 27

11:26

Answer 27

When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.)

Question 28

11:30

Answer 28

This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

Question 29

11:21

Answer 29

The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord.

Question 30

11:20

Answer 30

However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus.