Acts 5 - Quote Cards

Question 1

5:7

Answer 1

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

Question 2

5:1

Answer 2

But there was a certain man named Ananias who, with his wife, Sapphira, sold some property.

Question 3

5:4

Answer 3

The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was also yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us but to God!”

Question 4

5:2

Answer 4

He brought part of the money to the apostles, claiming it was the full amount. With his wife’s consent, he kept the rest.

Question 5

5:5

Answer 5

As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died. Everyone who heard about it was terrified.

Question 6

5:8

Answer 6

Peter asked her, “Was this the price you and your husband received for your land?” “Yes,” she replied, “that was the price.”

Question 7

5:9

Answer 7

And Peter said, “How could the two of you even think of conspiring to test the Spirit of the Lord like this? The young men who buried your husband are just outside the door, and they will carry you out, too.”

Question 8

5:6

Answer 8

Then some young men got up, wrapped him in a sheet, and took him out and buried him.

Question 9

5:3

Answer 9

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why have you let Satan fill your heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself.

Question 10

5:18

Answer 10

They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

Question 11

5:14

Answer 11

Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord-crowds of both men and women.

Question 12

5:10

Answer 12

Instantly, she fell to the floor and died. When the young men came in and saw that she was dead, they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Question 13

5:19

Answer 13

But an angel of the Lord came at night, opened the gates of the jail, and brought them out. Then he told them,

Question 14

5:11

Answer 14

Great fear gripped the entire church and everyone else who heard what had happened.

Question 15

5:12

Answer 15

The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple in the area known as Solomon’s Colonnade.

Question 16

5:13

Answer 16

But no one else dared to join them, even though all the people had high regard for them.

Question 17

5:15

Answer 17

As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by.

Question 18

5:16

Answer 18

Crowds came from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed.

Question 19

5:17

Answer 19

The high priest and his officials, who were Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Question 20

5:20

Answer 20

“Go to the Temple and give the people this message of life!”

Question 21

5:27

Answer 21

Then they brought the apostles before the high council, where the high priest confronted them.

Question 22

5:26

Answer 22

The captain went with his Temple guards and arrested the apostles, but without violence, for they were afraid the people would stone them.

Question 23

5:25

Answer 23

Then someone arrived with startling news: “The men you put in jail are standing in the Temple, teaching the people!”

Question 24

5:29

Answer 24

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.

Question 25

5:23

Answer 25

“The jail was securely locked, with the guards standing outside, but when we opened the gates, no one was there!”

Question 26

5:21

Answer 26

So at daybreak the apostles entered the Temple, as they were told, and immediately began teaching. When the high priest and his officials arrived, they convened the high council-the full assembly of the elders of Israel. Then they sent for the apostles to be brought from the jail for trial.

Question 27

5:22

Answer 27

But when the Temple guards went to the jail, the men were gone. So they returned to the council and reported,

Question 28

5:24

Answer 28

When the captain of the Temple guard and the leading priests heard this, they were perplexed, wondering where it would all end.

Question 29

5:28

Answer 29

“We gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man’s name!” he said. “Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about him, and you want to make us responsible for his death!”

Question 30

5:38

Answer 30

“So my advice is, leave these men alone. Let them go. If they are planning and doing these things merely on their own, it will soon be overthrown.

Question 31

5:31

Answer 31

Then God put him in the place of honor at his right hand as Prince and Savior. He did this so the people of Israel would repent of their sins and be forgiven.

Question 32

5:32

Answer 32

We are witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Spirit, who is given by God to those who obey him.”

Question 33

5:34

Answer 33

But one member, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, who was an expert in religious law and respected by all the people, stood up and ordered that the men be sent outside the council chamber for a while.

Question 34

5:36

Answer 34

Some time ago there was that fellow Theudas, who pretended to be someone great. About 400 others joined him, but he was killed, and all his followers went their various ways. The whole movement came to nothing.

Question 35

5:35

Answer 35

Then he said to his colleagues, “Men of Israel, take care what you are planning to do to these men!

Question 36

5:33

Answer 36

When they heard this, the high council was furious and decided to kill them.

Question 37

5:37

Answer 37

After him, at the time of the census, there was Judas of Galilee. He got people to follow him, but he was killed, too, and all his followers were scattered.

Question 38

5:39

Answer 38

But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God!”

Question 39

5:30

Answer 39

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead after you killed him by hanging him on a cross.

Question 40

5:42

Answer 40

And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message: “Jesus is the Messiah.”

Question 41

5:40

Answer 41

The others accepted his advice. They called in the apostles and had them flogged. Then they ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus, and they let them go.

Question 42

5:41

Answer 42

The apostles left the high council rejoicing that God had counted them worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus.