Theology: Paul and Acts of the Apostles
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Remember what the rabbi _______ said: "Leave these men alone. If their purpose is of human origin, it will ____, but if it is God's design, we won't be able to ________." | Gamaliel; fail; stop it |
| Who is being stoned to death? _______, 1st martyr | Stephen |
| Where is Saul from? Tarsus, Asia Minor, (now _________) | Turkey |
| Why does Saul feel that it is important to go to Damascus? Major city on the _____________; easy for the gospel to ______ to other countries | caravan route; spread |
| _________ is the name of the man who comes to pray for paul to regain his sight. | Ananias |
| After the scene where paul cures the man who cannot walk, we find Paul and _________ together. The people think they are gods. | Barnabas |
| _____ is in the body of a _________________ | Satan; fortune teller |
| ________ and Paul are beaten and imprisoned because they destroyed the "property" of a man. The "property" was a ________________ - fortune teller. | Silas; slave woman |
| Paul and Silas live through an ________ while in prison and they convert the ______________. They continue their journey through _________ = (________) | earthquake; jailor and family; Macedonia; Greece |
| "Men of _______, I saw an altar to an unknown god. I want to tell you that this God you worship without knowing it is the same God who made the world and _____________ in it." | Athens; everyone (thing) |
| What does Paul ask the sorcerer to do? burn his _________________ and ________. | incantation scrolls; convert |
| After Paul had been away 4 years on this 3rd missionary journey, he set sail for Caesarea. He was eager to be back in __________ for the Feast of __________. | Jerusalem; Pentecost |
| Paul was arrested and sent to _________ where he was imprisoned for __ years by Governor Felix. | Caesarea; 2 |
| Jesus appears to Paul and says he must bear witness to him in ______. | Rome |
| King Agrippa II of ______ and Bernice and the Roman Procurator _________ listen to Paul plead his defense. | Judea; Festus |
| The Jews want Paul to ____, but the Roman Procurator doe snot know what to convict him of. | die |
| They are shipwrecked on the island of ______. | Malta |
| Paul should have died when what happened to him? a ________________ bit him | poisonous snake |
| After __ months on the island they are rescued and Paul is then imprisoned for __ more years in Rome. He finally was able to testify before one of ______ courts and was acquitted. This occurred _______ Nero set fire to Rome and accused the Christians for this. | 3; 2; Nero's; before |
| A young man named __________ who was sitting in the window, began to sink off into a deep sleep while Paul talked still longer. Overcome by sleep, he _________________________ and was _________________. But Paul went down, and bending over him took him in his arms, and said, "Do not be alarmed, for ______________." | Eutychus; fell to the ground three floors below; was picked up dead; his life is in him |
| There was dissention between the _________ Jewish converts and the _________ Jewish converts. Here's what happened. _________ was a Jewish celebration of the _____ and many Jews from all over the Roman Empire would try to come to Jerusalem. So Greek jews were in town and expected to stay for a couple of weeks normally. However, the Holy Spirit comes to the Apostles/disciples/Mary and other women; among the many gifts given to them, courage is the most obvious and ______ preaches to the crowds about their salvation through Jesus. As a result, the Hellenistic Jews are converted and decide NOT to go home but to stay in ____________. The Hebrew Jews who convert are now living "in community" with a lot of other people they don't know. Problems result between the two groups and the apostles pray and pick 7 Greek Jews to become______ and they are put in charge of solving the arguments that occur. 4 of the seven are: ______, ______, Nicholas and _____. | Hellenistic; Hebrew; Pentecost; Law; Peter; Jerusalem; deacons; Stephen; Philip; Timon |
| Another section of Acts shows how deacon Philip preached the good news to the ___________ and he baptized the __________________. | Samaritans; Ethiopian Eunuch |
| In Acts, the apostles severely reprimand ______ the magician who thought he could buy the gift of the Holy Spirit. (sin of ______) | Simon; simony |
| Acts 9 recounts the conversion of Saul on the road to Damascus. He would become the Apostle to the _______. He was born into an Aramaic-speaking Jewish family who had ______________ and were living in Tarsus, Asia Minor. He was circumcised on the eighth day after birth and given the Hebrew name ______ as well as the Latin name, ______. He learned the trade of __________, possibly his family's livelihood. | Gentiles; Roman citizenship; Saul; Paul; tent-maker |
| Peter was convinced that the Gentiles should be welcomed into the Church by a ______ and his meeting with _________ and his household. Before Peter's eyes, ________ and his whole household received the _________________ (____________). | vision; Cornelius; Cornelius; Holy Spirit; Confirmation |
| Peter realized then, that he should _____ them since it was obvious that the Holy Spirit desired this. | baptize |
| Also in Acts, King Agrippa 1 began a persecution of the _________. He arrested Peter and James and killed __________ (first apostle to be ___________) but Peter miraculously escaped prison. | Apostles; James; martyred |
| St. Paul always preached _____ to the _____ in their synagogues. When the Jews rejected them, they preached to the Gentiles who accepted them. | first; Jews |
| St. Paul and his co-workers did not require Gentile converts to submit to _________, nor to follow Jewish dietary, fasting or Sabbath Laws before baptizing them. This controversy resulted in the _________________ in 49 AD. | circumcision; Council of Jerusalem |
| _______, the "brother of the Lord" and bishop of Jerusalem also spoke at the _________________ and agreed that Gentile-Christians should be _____ of most of the restrictions of the Law. In Hebrew and Aramaic, the word for "_______" is used for full, step, half, cousins and all males descended from the same common ancestor. | James; Council of Jerusalem; free; brother |
| The ___________________ decided that the Gentile-Christians should: 1) avoid anything associated with the worship of false gods (idols) 2) never drink ______ nor eat the meat of strangled animals (birds because the _____ would not be drained out of them). 3) no sexual relations outside of marriage | Council of Jerusalem; blood; blood |
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