Acts: Lesson 11
Study Guide Questions for Ch. 21-22
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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Fortitude, Prudence, Despotism
Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What were the disciples telling Paul “through the Spirit” not to do?
Whose house did Paul and his companions stay in at Caesarea while on their way to Jerusalem?
What did Agabus do with Paul’s belt and what did he say?
What did Luke note about Mnason?
With whom did Paul meet after arriving in Jerusalem?
What advice did Paul receive from those with whom he met?
What did the crowd claim Paul had done (which he had not actually done)?
Who intervened as Paul was being attacked at the Temple?
What events did Paul give a narration about to the crowd in Jerusalem?
What kept Paul from being flogged?
How did the tribune become a Roman citizen?
What did the tribune command since he was “desiring to know the real reason” why Paul had been attacked?
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
What does the text mean by calling Philip “one of the seven”?
Why did Agabus use Paul’s belt rather than just delivering the message with words alone?
Why would the Jerusalem elders give Paul the advice they did? Why was paying for the purification of those four men, and himself, as well as making an offering, supposed to improve his situation?
Why does Paul make offerings in the temple when the Gentiles are not required to keep the law?
What is indicated by the fact that “Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another”?
Why is it significant that Paul was taught by Gamaliel? Where have we seen him before?
Why did the crowd become more quiet when they realized Paul was speaking to them “in the Hebrew language”?
Why was the tribune fearful when he learned that Paul was a Roman citizen?
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Given that the disciples told Paul “through the Spirit” not to go to Jerusalem was Paul disobeying God by going anyway? Why or why not? Defend your answer with reason and evidence from the text.
How does a person become prepared to give a defense of his or her faith as we see Paul do here and numerous other places throughout Acts? Outline some steps we could take in order to be prepared to speak with boldness and confidence about our faith if the occasion comes our way.
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
The vow which the four men in Acts 21 were under was most likely a Nazarite vow. Read Numbers 6:1-21 and list at least three things you learn there about the Nazarite vow. What do you understand to be the purpose of this vow?