Acts 14

Question 1

Acts 14:1

Answer 1

At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed.

Question 2

Acts 14:2

Answer 2

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Question 3

Acts 14:3

Answer 3

So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to do miraculous signs and wonders.

Question 4

Acts 14:4

Answer 4

The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.

Question 5

Acts 14:5

Answer 5

There was a plot afoot among the Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.

Question 6

Acts 14:6

Answer 6

But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country,

Question 7

Acts 14:7

Answer 7

where they continued to preach the good news.

Question 8

Acts 14:8

Answer 8

In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

Question 9

Acts 14:9

Answer 9

He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed

Question 10

Acts 14:10

Answer 10

and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.

Question 11

Acts 14:11

Answer 11

When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!”

Question 12

Acts 14:12

Answer 12

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker.

Question 13

Acts 14:13

Answer 13

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

Question 14

Acts 14:14

Answer 14

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting:

Question 15

Acts 14:15

Answer 15

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Question 16

Acts 14:16

Answer 16

In the past, he let all nations go their own way.

Question 17

Acts 14:17

Answer 17

Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”

Question 18

Acts 14:18

Answer 18

Even with these words, they had difficulty keeping the crowd from sacrificing to them.

Question 19

Acts 14:19

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Acts 14:20

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Acts 14:21

Answer 21

They preached the good news in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,

Question 22

Acts 14:22

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Acts 14:23

Answer 23

Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Question 24

Acts 14:24

Answer 24

After going through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia,

Question 25

Acts 14:25

Answer 25

and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Question 26

Acts 14:26

Answer 26

From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

Question 27

Acts 14:27

Answer 27

On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Question 28

Acts 14:28

Answer 28

And they stayed there a long time with the disciples.