In this chapter
Pentecost
What is Chapter 2?
The Apostles received this power at Pentecost, promised by Jesus before he left.
What is the power of the Holy Spirit?
Center of the Early Church: changes later to Antioch, where most of Acts 1-9 have taken place.
What is Jerusalem?
Grecian Jews - their other name.
Who is Hellenistic Jews?
Christians did this as a result of persecution in Acts 8.
What is scatter?
Saul's Conversion
Saul was left this way after his conversion. I'm sure he was thankful it only lasted 3 days.
What is Blind?
They decided to be a bit untruthful about how much they sold their property for.
Who are Ananias and Sapphira?
The Jews of this city were not so fond of Saul's preaching, he had to escape, down a wall in a basket.
What is Damascus?
From Today: Raised from the Dead.
Who is Dorcas/Tabitha?
Saul Watching Clothes
What is Chapter 7?
He was called the "Great Power of God", However it was all a scam.
Who is Simon the Magician?
First Christian Martyr.
Who is Stephen?
This group, the same as the woman Jesus met at the well belonged to, received the gospel in Acts 8 by Philip.
Who are the Samaritans?
Jesus commanded these regions to be reached by the Gospel... go way back.
What is Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the Uttermost parts of the World?
Stephen's first mention in Acts.
What is Chapter 6?
Members of it were called "stiffed-necked" --- No surprise how they reacted.
What is the Sanhedrin?
This place in the Bible is different than today, today its about the same as area as Sudan.
What is Ethiopia?
The reason Grecian Jews called upon the apostles to select what we often consider deacons
What are the widows?
These two men had to come certify that the half-breeds could inherit the kingdom of God and receive salvation.
Who are Peter and John?
God striking two people dead; they wont lie again.
What is chapter 5?
Stephen was brutal during his speech before the Sanhedrin and knocked down (symbolically) these these cows (idiols).
What are the Law, the Land, the Temple?
Paul's Home
What is Tarsus?
He could never truly become a Jew, but only could be in the process of proselytization because of some bodily mutilation in Africa. Did not stop Jesus from saving him though, with the help of Philip.
Who is the Ethiopian Eunuch?
In this epistle Paul recounts his conversion and Damascus experience.
What is Galatians?