Pentecost Fire
On this ancient Jewish feast day, the Holy Spirit fell upon the believers in Jerusalem.
What is Pentecost?
Saint Peter and Saint John healed a man with this condition who sat daily at the temple gate called Beautiful.
What is being lame / unable to walk?
Saul was on his way to this city — breathing threats against the disciples — when a blinding light stopped him.
What is Damascus?
This deacon became the Church's first martyr, stoned after giving a powerful speech before the Sanhedrin.
Who is Saint Stephen?
Acts was written by this physician, who also wrote one of the four Gospels.
Who is Saint Luke?
At Pentecost, these appeared above the believers' heads — divided, like fire.
What are tongues of fire?
This husband and wife both dropped dead after lying to the Holy Spirit about money from a land sale.
Who are Ananias and Sapphira?
God sent this disciple in Damascus to lay hands on Saul and restore his sight.
Who is Saint Ananias?
When ordered by the Jewish council to stop preaching, Peter and John answered with this famous reply.
What is 'We must obey God rather than men'?
Believers were first called 'Christians' in this city.
What is Antioch?
The miracle at Pentecost reversed this Old Testament event, where God confused human language and scattered the nations.
What is the Tower of Babel? (Genesis 11)
People laid the sick in the streets of Jerusalem hoping that even this part of a passing apostle's body might fall on them and bring healing.
What is Saint Peter's shadow? (Acts 5:15)
Saint Philip met this foreign official reading Isaiah in his chariot. He explained the Scripture and baptized him on the spot.
Who is the Ethiopian eunuch?
When the crowd mocked the believers at Pentecost and said they were drunk, this apostle stood and silenced them with a sermon from the prophet Joel.
Who is Saint Peter?
This council in Acts 15 settled a major dispute, deciding Gentiles did not need to be circumcised to follow Christ.
What is the Jerusalem Council?
The crowd was amazed because the believers were speaking in these — languages they had never learned.
What are other tongues / other languages?
In Lystra, Saint Paul healed a lame man and the crowd went wild, calling Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas by the names of these two Greek gods.
Who are Zeus and Hermes?
Saint Paul's first missionary journey partner — a Levite from Cyprus whose name means 'Son of Encouragement.'
Who is Saint Barnabas?
Saint Paul argued and reasoned daily in this lecture hall in Ephesus for about two years.
What is the Hall of Tyrannus?
The four practices the first believers devoted themselves to: the apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and this.
What is prayer?
About this many people were baptized and added to the Church on the day of Pentecost.
What is 3,000?
This young man fell asleep during Saint Paul's long sermon in Troas, tumbled out of a third-story window, and was raised from the dead.
Who is Saint Eutychus? (Acts 20:9)
At midnight in a Philippian jail, beaten and chained, Saint Paul and Saint Silas were doing this — and the other prisoners were listening.
What is praying and singing hymns? (Acts 16:25)
Saint Paul shared his testimony before this king, who replied that Saint Paul was almost persuading him to become a Christian.
Who is King Agrippa?
The Book of Acts ends with Saint Paul in this city, under house arrest, boldly preaching the Kingdom of God to all who came.
What is Rome?