ACTS

(Answers)



CHAPTER 1

  1. Luke.
  2. a. Mount Olive. b. To Jerusalem. c. A Sabbath day's journey. d. In an upper room where they were staying.
  3. About 120.
  4. To replace Judas Iscariot with someone else.
  5. a. He must have been a follower of Jesus since the baptism by John through the resurrection of Jesus. b. Matthias.

CHAPTER 2.

  1. They received the ability to speak of the wonderful works of God in other languages.
  2. a. Each could understand them in his own language. b. They were Galileans. c. The eleven apostles.
  3. No, he remained dead and buried.
  4. He would not see corruption by the grave and would sit at God's right hand until all of His enemies were under Him.
  5. To be given the Holy Spirit is the gift. This gift will enable you to know what is the good, the righteous, and the truth.
  6. He was teaching them what to change in their lives so they would not be like the rest of the world. He probably taught them the teachings of Jesus.
  7. They received the word and obey it steadfastly. They followed the teachings.
  8. They ate at different homes together, sharing the gospel and praying together.
  9. They sold their possessions as needed and gave to those in need among them.

CHAPTER 3

  1. a. A lame man. b. God.
  2. a. Being sorry for your sins and turn away from them. b. Change the way you live (in your heart and actions) so you will turn away from sin. c. Be strengthened and guided by the Holy Spirit for righteousness. d. If we turn from our sins and change our heart and mind, guided by God's Spirit, so that we do the will of God, Jesus will be sent to gather us for the eternal reward.
  3. He is waiting until it is the time for all things to be restored to God.

CHAPTER 4

  1. The Levite priests, elders, and high priests.
  2. By the authority of Jesus.
  3. They were uneducated and untrained men.
  4. No.
  5. They would lose their authority, power, status, and respect.
  6. It showed that he, a Levite, accepted their authority.

CHAPTER 5

  1. They sold a possession of land and kept the proceeds for themselves, only bringing a part of it to the apostles. They planned to draw from what was brought to the apostles and have their own too.
  2. a. Holy Spirit. b. God. c. He fell dead instantly. d. She also fell dead instantly.
  3. a. They were healing all of them of all sickness and unclean spirits. b. They were jealous. c. They had them imprisoned.
  4. a. They were freed by an angel of the Lord. b. They went to the temple and began teaching the people again. c. They wanted them to stop preaching about Jesus. d. "We should obey God rather than men."
  5. To wait and see if the apostles' work was of man or God. If it was of man, it would end. If it was of God, it could not be stopped.

CHAPTER 6

  1. a. Greek speaking Jews. b. Their widows were being neglected in the daily distributions. c. They had the people choose seven godly and just men to be in charge of the distributions.
  2. They falsely accused him of blaspheming God and Moses.

CHAPTER 7

  1. He recited in wisdom and by the Spirit the story of the children of Israel from Abraham to Jesus Christ.
  2. a. They stoned him to death. b. To forgive them. c. Saul (Paul).

CHAPTER 8

  1. He began creating havoc and put people in prison.
  2. a. A sorcerer. b. They thought he was the great power of God.
  3. He believed and was baptized and continued on with Philip.
  4. a. He offered them money for the power. b. He would perish with his money. c. Because he thought the gift of God (the Holy Spirit) could be bought. d. His heart was not right. He wanted the power for his purposes. e. Repent and ask forgiveness from God.
  5. a. The book of Isaiah. b. Jesus.
  6. He baptized him.

CHAPTER 9

  1. a. Jesus. b. He became blind.
  2. He was to be filled with the Holy Spirit and carry Jesus' name before the Gentiles and Israel.
  3. He preached that Jesus was the Son of God.
  4. He was let down through a window in a basket.
  5. The Hellenists.
  6. A paralyzation of eight years.
  7. He brought a woman back to life.

CHAPTER 10

  1. a. A centurion of the Romans. b. Yes, a devout man of God.
  2. His works were remembered before God. He would receive the Holy Spirit and knowledge of Jesus' forgiveness.
  3. There was nothing made by God that He could declare clean. The Gentiles were cleansed through Jesus also.
  4. Peter and his circumcised company were surprised to see God was with the Gentiles.

CHAPTER 11

  1. John's washed away sins by repentance. Jesus' forgave sins and gave us the Holy Spirit to help us become sanctified in God's ways.
  2. In Antioch.

CHAPTER 12

  1. Harass the church.
  2. James, the brother of John, of the sons of Zebedee.
  3. a. Peter. b. He was set free by an angel.
  4. He received glory as a god instead of fearing God and giving Him the glory.

CHAPTER 13

  1. Barnabas and Saul.
  2. a. He tried to keep them from converting the proconsul Sergius Paulus. b. Full of deceit and unrighteousness - a son of the devil. c. To be blind for a time. d. God.
  3. a. Jesus is the Christ by whom we receive forgiveness. Beware of despising or rejecting this truth. b. They wanted to hear more on the next Sabbath.
  4. They were filled with jealousy against them.
  5. The Jews had rejected God's word and Jesus.
  6. Anyone whose heart was right or ready and who would accept the gospel of Christ.

CHAPTER 14

  1. A man crippled in his feet since birth.
  2. a. They called them gods. b. No.
  3. The Jews from Antioch and Iconium.
  4. a. Opened the door of faith for them. b. God had given the opportunity for salvation to the Gentiles too.

CHAPTER 15

  1. The Judeans were saying the Gentiles must be circumcised.
  2. a. By their hearts. b. The time when the household of Cornelius was touched by the Holy Spirit.
  3. To abstain from all unclean things as was familiar to all because Moses was taught in the synagogues each Sabbath.
  4. a. To see how the people were doing in their faith and to strengthen them. b. John had left the work early one time when in Pamphylia.

CHAPTER 16

  1. The Jews in this region would not even begin to listen to an uncircumcised person. Paul knew circumcision was not necessary but did it to relate to the Jews so they would listen to the word (see 1Co.9:22).
  2. They had healed a demon possessed girl who was used for profit in fortune telling.
  3. a. They were set free by an earthquake. b. He became a believer of Jesus.

CHAPTER 17

  1. They searched the scriptures daily to see if their words were true.
  2. a. The Jews from Thessalonica. b. They were led by Satan to stir up people against Paul and Silas.
  3. Highly knowledgeable, intelligent, religious people looking for understanding in anything new.
  4. The God who made the universe, who is the very reason we exist and whose offspring we are.

CHAPTER 18

  1. a. A Jewish husband and wife deported from Rome who were followers of Christ. b. Tentmakers. c. Because he was a tentmaker also.
  2. a. He shook his garments at them as a sign of giving up on them and left there judgement to themselves. b. Not to give up, keep speaking, no one would harm him for there were many people there who believed in God. c. He showed people from the scriptures about Jesus.
  3. a. A Jew who knew the scriptures and delivered them eloquently. b. He knew the ways of God and the repentance of John's baptism. c. They told him about conversion by the Holy Spirit and forgiveness of sins by Jesus Christ. d. By the scriptures in the old testament.

CHAPTER 19

  1. a. They were unusual or extraordinary. b. Handkerchiefs or aprons brought from his body healed people of evil spirits.
  2. a. They believed the power came from just saying the name of Jesus. They did not have Jesus in their hearts. b. They were beat up badly by an evil spirit in a man.
  3. So the word of the Lord would be believed and grow mightily and prevail.
  4. a. He was losing money for his work. b. He accused Paul of despising their goddess, Diana (Artemis).

CHAPTER 20

  1. a. All night, until daybreak. b. He fell asleep and fell out of a third story window.
  2. All things that would help them live and endure in the grace of God.
  3. a. Repentance toward God and faith toward Jesus Christ. b. To be sorrow of your sins before God with a desire to change and to know we have forgiveness through Jesus (instead of the rituals of the Law).
  4. He had told them all things they needed to know in order to live right before God which, in the end, would save them.
  5. Yes. Paul said there would be those who would come and mislead them. They would follow after the false teachers.

CHAPTER 21

  1. Paul would be bound at Jerusalem.
  2. a. To circumcise their sons or do the rituals of the law was not necessary. b. To go with 4 men who were being purified and go through the rituals of the law with them to show he was upholding the law.

CHAPTER 22

  1. When he said he was sent to the Gentiles by God because the Jews would not receive Him.
  2. Paul was a Roman, uncondemned. This was not lawful to do to a Roman citizen.

CHAPTER 23

  1. The Pharisees believed in angels or spirits and the resurrection. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection or spirits.
  2. a. They would ambush him and kill him when he was coming to be questioned before the council. b. Paul's sister's son.
  3. To Felix, the governor, in Caesarea.

CHAPTER 24

  1. Because he was a well trained orator, he would be a more effective tool against Paul.
  2. Because he had said there would be a resurrection of the dead.
  3. His wife Drusilla was a Jew.
  4. Paul told him about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgement. Felix was not living right before God.
  5. Two years.

CHAPTER 25

  1. To bring Paul back to Jerusalem while they would lay in ambush to kill Him.
  2. No.
  3. a. King Agrippa. b. So he might find some charge against Paul to bring to Caesar.

CHAPTER 26

  1. Paul strove hard against the name of Jesus.
  2. To turn them from their wrong ways to the ways of God.
  3. They should do works that were befitting of repentance. They would resist the devil and his ways to follow God and His ways (they had to turn to God's ways - an active lifestyle).
  4. To become a Christian.
  5. He had appealed to Caesar and God had intended for him to go to Rome to witness (see Ro. 23:11).

CHAPTER 27

  1. The voyage would be a disaster. There would be loss of cargo and the ship, but no loss of lives.
  2. 276.
  3. To eat, for they would need their strength.
  4. Because he wanted Paul to be spared.

CHAPTER 28

  1. a. He was bit by a poisonous snake. b. He must be a murderer who was not allowed to escape death. c. He must be a god.
  2. To dwell freely with just a guard.
  3. No.
  4. The gospel of the Way they had heard about.
  5. That Jesus was the Christ.
  6. a. He let them come to Him. b. Two years.