Acts: Lesson 13

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 25-26

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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)

Justice, Light vs. Darkness

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. Approximately how long had Festus been in his new role before he heard Paul’s case?

2. What was Paul’s response when Festus asked him if he would like to be sent back to Jerusalem to be tried?

3. What did Agrippa request of Festus?

4. What seemed “unreasonable” to Festus to send a prisoner to Caesar without doing?

5. Why, according to the text, did Paul say he was fortunate to be able to make his defense before Agrippa?

6. When Paul recounts his story about Jesus appearing to him on the road to Damascus, how many people in his traveling party did it say fell to the ground?

7. What did Festus claim had driven Paul out of his mind?

8. Who did Paul say he wished would become a Christian like him “except for these chains”?

9. According to Agrippa, what could have been done for Paul had he “not appealed to Caesar”?

Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)

1. Why did Paul appeal his case to Caesar?

2. Why might Agrippa have been interested in listening to Paul?

3. What about what Paul had said made Festus think Paul was out of his mind?

4. Why do the Jews and their authorities (like the high priest) think Paul deserves tp die when the Roman magistrates and King Agrippa do not?

Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)

1. Festus thought Paul had been driven crazy by his great learning. What does it mean to actually not be of sound mine? How does one determine the difference between being simply wrong, gullible, or eccentric versus actually insane? How did Paul defend against this charge of insanity and how should that defense affect our own understanding of what it means to be “out your mind”?

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Read Proverbs 25:15. What does this proverb mean and how can we relate this to our present reading?