Acts: Lesson 6
Study Guide Questions for Ch. 11-12
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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Salvation, Despotism, Joy, Unbelief, Justice
Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
About what did the “circumcision party” criticize Peter?
How many people came with Peter who also witnessed the Holy Spirit falling upon the gentile believers?
What was the response of the people who heard the testimony and evidence about what God had done with these gentiles?
To whom had the believers, who had been “scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen”, been “speaking the word to”?
Whom did the Jerusalem church send to Antioch to confirm the reports of new gentile converts?
What did the disciples determine to do “by the hand of Barnabas and Saul”?
What wicked things did Herod do against the church?
How did Peter escape from imprisonment?
What humorous thing did Rhoda do “in her joy”?
What did Herod do with the soldiers who had been guarding the prison when Peter escaped?
According to the text, why did Herod die and how did he die?
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
Why were the men of the “circumcision party” criticizing Peter? What did they think he had done wrong?
What is the connection between the number of times Peter saw the vision and the men that came to call him?
Why were the scattered believers only “speaking the word” to Jews?
Why did Barnabas take this occasion, while he was in Antioch, to go looking for Saul in Tarsus?
What is the difference between a prophet, like Agabus, and an Apostle?
Why didn’t the disciples in Mary’s house believe Rhoda?
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Consider Peter’s report in Acts 11:1-18. Why are witnesses important for establishing the truth of a claim? What are some different ways the truth of a claim might be verified? Try to name at least two other ways and give an example each.
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Compare the following passages carefully: Matthew 4:10; Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 10:25-26; Acts 12:20-23; Revelation 19:10. What conclusions ought we to draw from these passages concerning who ought to be worshiped, who ought not to be, and why?