Acts: Lesson 5

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 9-10

If you are looking for the beginning of this study you can start HERE with the brief introduction. At the bottom of that introduction will be the links to each section of the study guide as it becomes available. For this study the English Standard Version is the translation that is being utilized and you can read it online HERE or pick up the copy of your choice from Amazon or your local book store. I find THIS EDITION to be useful for deeper study and annotation.

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

Light vs. Darkness, Peace, Goodness, Death and Resurrection, Fellowship

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What did Saul see and hear on the road to Damascus?

2. What was Saul instructed to do?

3. What was Ananias told to go and do?

4. How did God respond to Ananias’ fear? What did he tell him about his plans for Saul?

5. What was the first thing Paul did after regaining his sight?

6. What did Saul do that “confounded the Jews”?

7. How did Saul escape those who wanted him dead?

8. Who helped Saul be accepted by the disciples and how?

9. What miracles did Peter perform in Lydda and Joppa?

10. What did the angel instruct Cornelius to do?

11. What vision did Peter see while he was praying?

12. What did Peter prevent Cornelius from continuing to do?

13. What was the result of Cornelius and his household hearing about Jesus?

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

1. Why was Saul so intent on destroying the Christian church?

2. Why might the Lord have blinded Saul temporarily? Why not merely talk to him?

3. Why did the Lord choose to involve Ananias in the process of calling Saul to himself?

4. What might we infer about prayer from Cornelius’ and Peter’s example?

5. What is the connection between Peter’s vision and Cornelius?

6. Why did Cornelius attempt to worship Peter?

7. Why was it so surprising to Peter and the other believers who came with him that the Holy Spirit fell upon Cornelius and his household? 

8. What should we infer about the message of the gospel from the fact that Cornelius was allowed to be baptized?

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

1. Define the concept of fellowship. What, generally speaking,  allows fellowship to occur and what hinders it? How is fellowship an important idea in this present reading?

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Read 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 and Acts 23:1-5. What connection might these two passages have with Paul’s conversion story?

2. Read Galatians 1:11-24. How does this add some detail as to what we read in Acts 9?

3. Read Romans 10. What connections should we make between what is taught in this passage and our current reading in Acts?