FIRST-CENTURY WORLD
This empire dominated the New Testament world and ruled during Christ's life.
What is the Roman Empire?
God's undeserved kindness; in Romans, Paul presents salvation as a gift of this.
What is God's grace?
The city Saul was traveling to when he encountered Jesus.
What is Damascus?
Luke also wrote this other New Testament book, which shares a parallel introduction mentioning Theophilus.
What is the Gospel of Luke?
This conqueror spread Greek culture from Greece to India during the intertestamental period.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The spread of Greek culture and language.
What is Hellenization?
The act of God declaring sinners righteous.
What is justification?
This Old Testament passage the Ethiopian Eunuch was reading when Philip proclaimed Christ.
What is Isaiah 53?
The earliest name given to the church in the book of Acts.
What is The Way?
This military leader, son of Mattathias, was nicknamed "The Hammer."
Who is Judas? or Judas Maccabeus?
This period of 400 years between the Old Testament prophets and Jesus' birth.
What is the Intertestamental Period?
Romans was written to address a specific audience with specific concerns, making it this type of document.
What is an "occasional document"?
This God-fearing Roman centurion received a vision telling him to send for Peter.
Who is Cornelius?
This first Christian martyr was described as "full of the spirit and wisdom."
This king of Judea's most notable public works project was the Jerusalem Temple expansion.
Who is Herod the Great?
This was the primary conversational language in first-century Judea.
What is Aramaic?
God's existence and attributes revealed in creation.
What is general revelation
This is what Cornelius was: a Roman military officer commanding approximately 100 soldiers.
What is a centurion?
The four things early Christians devoted themselves to according to Acts 2:42-47.
Identify two to get the point.
What are the apostles' teaching, prayer, fellowship, and breaking bread?
This Roman emperor martyred both Peter and Paul.
Who is Nero?
These three Roman emperors declared themselves gods before death.
Who are Caligula, Nero, and Domitian?
The Old Testament prophet Paul quotes in Romans 1:17: "the righteous shall live by faith."
Who is Habakkuk?
This evangelist explained Scripture to the Ethiopian Eunuch.
Who is Philip?
"Breaking bread" in Acts 2:42-47 refers to this practice.
What is communion (or celebrating the Lord's Supper)?
This ruler punished Jews with taxation, pagan worship in the temple, and forbidding circumcision.
Who is Antiochius IV?