Political/ Religious Groups
Believed in resurrection of the dead; emphasis on traditions of elders and oral traditions
Pharisees
Between Judea and Galilee
Samaria
Number of Paul's major missionary journeys
three
Our purpose as Christians
Matthew 6:33
This saved Paul from scourging in Jerusalem
Roman citizenship
Believed there is no resurrection
Saducees
Caesarea
Paul was blinded on his way to this city
Damascus
Two parts of Gospel message
Acts 8:12
Another term for the General Epistles
Jews who sought to overthrow the occupying Roman government
Zealots
City on NW shore of Sea of Galilee
Capernaum
Companion of Paul who left him but later reconciled
Definition of sin
1 John 3:4
The three "Pastoral Epistles"
1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus
Jewish mystical sect; not directly mentioned in N.T.; believed to have dwelt at Qumram
Essenes
Bethphage
Length of time Paul was imprisoned at Caesarea
Two years
Basis for false secret rapture doctrine
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
Not a Prison Epistles
Galatians
Rejected Christ's divinity; taught the necessity of keeping Jewish law; work- based salvation; not explicitly named in the Bible
Ebionites
Nain
Co-worker with Paul who later deserted him
Wedding supper
Revelation 19:7-9
Courier of letter to Ephesians
Tychicus