Acts 17 Quiz

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1. Where did Paul pass to Thessalonica?

Colosse and Ephesus

Amphipolis and Apollonia

Tyre and Sidon

Lydda and Jopper

2. What did Paul use as a basis to reason with the Jews in Thessalonica?

The Scriptures

The temple of Jerusalem

Jesus

The cross

3. How long did Paul reason with the Jews?

Two sabbath days

Three weeks

One sabbath day

Three sabbath days

4. In Thessalonica, why were the Jews who did not believe envious of Paul and Silas?

They were envious because Paul and Silas were more eloquent than them.

They were envious because some Jews, a great multitude of devout Greeks, and many of the chief women of the city believed in the gospel Paul and Silas preached.

They were envious because Paul and Silas knew the scriptures more than they did.

They were envious because Paul and Silas were more anointed than them.

5. In Thessalonica, what did the Jews who did not believe do?

They accused Paul of heresy and abomination.

They started an uproar and persecuted some of the believers.

They abandoned the synagogue.

They threw stones at Paul.

6. Jason and other believers were seized by the Jews and brought to the rulers of the city. What accusation was leveled against them?

They were accused of acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there was another king, Jesus.

They were accused of aiding and abetting Paul to spread false religion in the city.

They were accused of speaking ill of Caesar.

They were accused of profaning the synagogue.

7. What accusation was brought against Jason when the Jews caught him and other believers in Thessalonica?

He was accused of destroying the idols of the city.

He was accused of renouncing his Jewish faith.

He was accused of being the ring leader of a rebellion Paul started.

He was accused of providing hospitality to Paul and co.

8. Why did the believers send Paul and Silas away from Thessalonica to Berea?

It was because they heard rumors that the Jews sought to kill Paul.

It was because of the threats of the Jews to harm Paul and co.

It was because they wanted Paul and Silas to preach at Berea just as they had done in Thessalonica.

It was because of the uproar and persecution stirred by the Jews.

9. Why were the Bereans described as being more nobles than the Thessalonians?

It was because they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether Paul's preaching was true.

They did not threaten Paul and company as the Thessalonians did.

They did not seek to kill Paul as the Thessalonians did.

They easily believed the word of God preached by Paul and company.

10. At what time of the day did the believers send Paul and Silas away from Thessalonica to Berea?

Evening

Midday

Night

Dusk

11. When the Jews in Thessalonica heard that Paul and Silas were winning souls in Berea, what did they do?

They came to arrest Paul.

They wrote a letter to the rulers of the city of Berea to speak ill of Paul's ministry.

They came to Berea to stir up the crowd against Paul's ministry.

They sent messengers to accuse Paul publicly of being a heretic.

12. Why did the believers send Paul away from Berea?

It was because the rulers of the city were after Paul.

It was because they heard rumors that the Jews were lying in wait for Paul.

It was because the Spirit told them in prayer to send Paul away to another place to preach.

The Jews in Thessalonica came to Berea to stir up the people again Paul.

13. Who were Paul's traveling companions at the time he was in Berea?

Nicanor

Silas

Nicholas

Timothy

John Mark

14. Which of Paul's traveling companions remained in Berea when he left?

Silas

John Mark

Timothy

Nicholas

Nicanor

15. What did Paul tell the believers who escorted him out of Berea to do for him?

He told them to tell Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly.

He told them to remember him daily in their prayers.

He told them to take good care of those companions of his who were in Berea.

He told them not to give false teachers any chance to ruin the church.

16. Why was Paul's spirit stirred up in him in Athens?

His spirit was stirred up in him because he saw that the city was full of immortality.

His spirit was stirred up in him because he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

His spirit was stirred up in him because he saw that the people of the city were ignorant.

His spirit was stirred up in him because he saw that the people were gentle and kind.

17. While Paul's spirit was stirred up in him, what was he moved to do in Athens?

He went to their main shrine to preach the gospel to them.

He sought to know why the Athenians were so immoral.

He disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons and in the market daily with those who met with him.

He started to preach in the Areopagus to elite Greeks.

18. Who brought Paul to the Areopagus of Athens?

Certain philosophers of the Epicureans and the Stoicks

The Jews

The Jewish believers

The Roman soldiers

19. Where did Paul stand to address the Athenians in the Areopagus?

Paul stood in front of a pillar.

Paul stood on a rock.

Paul stood in the midst of the Philosophers.

Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill.

20. In whom do we live, move, and have our being?

Knowledge

Law

God

World

21. 'And the times of this ignorance God winked at'. What is 'the time of ignorance'?

The time they were children.

The time they forsook the Lord.

The time they were not learned.

The time when man did not know the true God.

22. Why did some of the Athenian audience mock Paul?

They mocked him because he made mention of the resurrection of the dead.

They mocked him because Paul stammered.

They mocked him because Paul did not dress properly.

They mocked him because Paul could not speak Greek well.

23. According to Paul in Athens, why is it necessary for all men to repent?

It is necessary for all men to repent because not all men were Jews.

It is necessary for all men to repent because it is good to repent.

It is necessary for all men to repent because God has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus.

It is necessary for all men to repent because the world will come to an end.

24. Who were among those who repented and believed when Paul preached in the Areopagus?

Demas

Dionysius the Areopagite

Dimitri

Damaris

Antipas of Athens

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