Acts 8

Question 1

Acts 8:1

Answer 1

And Saul was there, giving approval to his death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

Question 2

Acts 8:2

Answer 2

Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.

Question 3

Acts 8:3

Answer 3

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Question 4

Acts 8:4

Answer 4

Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

Question 5

Acts 8:5

Answer 5

Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there.

Question 6

Acts 8:6

Answer 6

When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they all paid close attention to what he said.

Question 7

Acts 8:7

Answer 7

With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many, and many paralytics and cripples were healed.

Question 8

Acts 8:8

Answer 8

So there was great joy in that city.

Question 9

Acts 8:9

Answer 9

Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,

Question 10

Acts 8:10

Answer 10

and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is the divine power known as the Great Power.”

Question 11

Acts 8:11

Answer 11

They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

Question 12

Acts 8:12

Answer 12

But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Question 13

Acts 8:13

Answer 13

Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.

Question 14

Acts 8:14

Answer 14

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Question 15

Acts 8:15

Answer 15

When they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,

Question 16

Acts 8:16

Answer 16

because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

Question 17

Acts 8:17

Answer 17

Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Question 18

Acts 8:18

Answer 18

When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money

Question 19

Acts 8:19

Answer 19

and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

Question 20

Acts 8:20

Answer 20

Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

Question 21

Acts 8:21

Answer 21

You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

Question 22

Acts 8:22

Answer 22

Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.

Question 23

Acts 8:23

Answer 23

For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”

Question 24

Acts 8:24

Answer 24

Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

Question 25

Acts 8:25

Answer 25

When they had testified and proclaimed the word of the Lord, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.

Question 26

Acts 8:26

Answer 26

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road–the desert road–that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”

Question 27

Acts 8:27

Answer 27

So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

Question 28

Acts 8:28

Answer 28

and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet.

Question 29

Acts 8:29

Answer 29

The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

Question 30

Acts 8:30

Answer 30

Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

Question 31

Acts 8:31

Answer 31

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Question 32

Acts 8:32

Answer 32

The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Question 33

Acts 8:33

Answer 33

In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”

Question 34

Acts 8:34

Answer 34

The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”

Question 35

Acts 8:35

Answer 35

Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

Question 36

Acts 8:36

Answer 36

As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”

Question 37

Acts 8:38

Answer 37

And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.

Question 38

Acts 8:39

Answer 38

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.

Question 39

Acts 8:40

Answer 39

Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.