Multiple choice / True or False Flashcards
Ananias and Sapphira
- Acts 5
- Lied about financial contribution and die
Antioch
- Acts 11
- In Syria
- Where believers were first called Christian
- Acts 13
- Paul and Barnabas starting point for missionary journeys
Apollos
- Acts 18
- Taught about Jesus but his knowledge was incomplete
- Pricilla and Aquila take him aside to help him understand
Ascension
- Acts 1
- After resurrection spends 40 days with disciples then ascends
- Tells the disciples to remain in Jerusalem and await the coming of the Holy Spirit
Baptism
- Acts 2
- Often follows immediately upon belief and confession of faith
Berea
- Acts 17
- Received Paul and Silas well
Caesarea
- Acts 8-10
- Acts 18, 21, 23
- Conversion of Cornelius
- Paul’s trials and defense take place
Conversion
- Acts 9
- Pauls Conversion
Cornelius
- Acts 10
- In Caesarea
- Roman Centurion
- Shows spread of Christianity to Gentiles
Crete
- Acts 27
- Mentioned as part of Paul’s journey to Rome when his ship is caught in a storm; they stop at Fair Havens, a harbor on Crete, before continuing the dangerous voyage
Cyprus
- Acts 13
- Where Barnabas and Saul begin their first missionary journey
Damascus
- Acts 9
- Where Paul is converted
Death
- Consequence for opposition of God (Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5)
- Path to eternal life (Stephen Acts 7)
Death of Paul
- Acts does not record his death
- Ends with him under house arrest in Rome, preaching the gospel (Acts 28)
Elymas/Bar Jesus
- Acts 13
- Sorcerer + false prophet
- Paul makes him temporary blind
- Leads to proconsuls conversion to Christianity
End of Acts
- Acts 28
- Paul under house arrest in Rome
- Teaching about Jesus
- References Isiah 6:9-10
Exaltation of Jesus
- Acts 2
- When he is sitting at the right hand of the father
Gospel
- Acts 1:8
- The good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection, offering salvation to all who repent and believe, spreading from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth
Authorship
- Luke
- Adressed to Theophilus
Purpose
To document
- spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth
- the work of the Holy Spirit in the early church.
Jerusalem
- Acts 1-8
- Starting point of Christian Church
- Acts 2
- Where apostles recive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
Jews and Gentiles
- Jews are original followers of Jesus
- Gospel extended to Gentiles
- Seen in conversion of Cornelius (Acts 10)
- Seen when Jerusalem Council decides Gentiles do not need to follow Jewish Law to be saved
Malta
- Acts 28
- Where Paul was shipwrecked
Matthias
- Acts 1
- Replaced Judas
- Between Him and Barabus
Messiah
- Acts 2
- “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
“Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
Acts 2:36
“Then Peter said, ‘Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.’ Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.”
Acts 3:6-8
“Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 4:30-31
“The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade.”
Acts 5:12
“As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.”
Acts 5:15-16
“But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. ‘Go, stand in the temple courts,’ he said, ‘and tell the people all about this new life.’”
Acts 5:19-20
“There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years. ‘Aeneas,’ Peter said to him, ‘Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll up your mat.’ Immediately Aeneas got up.”
Acts 9:33-34
“Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’ She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.”
Acts 9:40-41
“The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. ‘Quick, get up!’ he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.”
Acts 12:6-11
“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.”
Acts 14:8-10
“Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, ‘These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.’ She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!’ At that moment the spirit left her.”
Acts 16:16-18
“God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.”
Acts 19:11-12
“Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, ‘This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.’ But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.”
Acts 28:3-6
“His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.”
Acts 28:8-9
Money & Possessions
- Acts 2
- Shared among believers to support one another, with generosity and selflessness seen as signs of the early church’s unity and faith
Mount of Olives
- Acts 1
- Where disciples were brought to see Jesus Ascend
Parallels to Jesus
- Performing miracles
- preaching the gospel
- facing persecution,
- suffering for the faith
(Acts 3:6-8; 7:54-60; 9:4-5)
Pauls Speech in Antioch
- Acts 13
- Paul outlines the history of Israel
- Emphasizing Jesus as the promised Savior
- Fulfilling God’s covenant
- Calling for repentance
Pauls Speech in Athens
- Acts 17
- Paul addresses the philosophers at the Areopagus
- Explains the nature of God as the Creator of all
- Calls them to repent and believe in Jesus, whom God raised from the dead
Pauls Speech in Miletus
- Acts 20
- To the Ephesian elders
- Paul reflects on his ministry
- warns them about future dangers
- urges them to shepherd the church with care and integrity
- stressing the importance of generosity and faithfulness to the gospel
Pauls Speech to Jerusalem crowd
- Acts 22
- Defends himself to a hostile Jewish crowd in Jerusalem
- Recounts conversion
- and his commission to preach to the Gentiles,
Pauls Speech to the Sanhedrin
- Acts 23
- Boldly defends his faith in the resurrection of the dead
- Uses his Roman citizenship to protect himself from a plot to kill him
Pauls Speech to Felix
- Acts 24
- Roman Governor
- Defends himself against accusations from the Jewish leaders
- Explains he worships the God of his ancestors and preaching about the resurrection of the dead, which was the key point of his trial.
Pauls Speech to King Agrippa
- Acts 26
- Personal Testimony of conversion and mission
- His faith is in Jesus as the messiah in line with the hope of Isreal
- Challenges King Agrippa to consider the truth of the gospel.
Pentecost
- Acts 2
- Outpouring of Holy Spirit
Philippi
- Acts 16
- Where Paul and Silas preach the gospel
- Lead Lydia to faith
- Convert the Philippian Jailer
Prophets
- Acts 15
- Judas and Silas
- Sent with Paul and Barnabas to deliver the decision of the Jerusalem Council to the churches**
- Acts 21
- Philips daughters
Resurrection
- Acts 9
- Tabitha
- Disciple who is raised by Paul and many people belive in Jesus as a result
- Acts 20
- Eutychus
- Falls out of window
- Raised by Paul
Rome
- Acts 28
- House arrest with solider guarding
Samaria
- Acts 8
- Philip preaches the gospel
- Many people belive and are baptized
- Peter and John later come and pray for them to recive the spirit
Troas
- Acts 20
- Where Eutychus falls out window and is brought back to life
