Questions about Acts
88 honest questions people ask about Acts, each answered from the verses. In Favor, they come up right where they arise as you read.
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- They "began to speak with other languages" (2:4). What were the languages?
- Joel's words in Peter's mouth say, "The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood" (2:20). Did that happen on the day of Pentecost?
- Peter says, "this Jesus whom you crucified" (2:36). Whom is he speaking to?
- "All who believed were together, and had all things in common" (2:44). What does that mean?
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- "for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus" (8:16). They had believed and been baptized (8:12). Why did the Holy Spirit come to them later?
- "Simon himself also believed" (8:13). What does the chapter go on to tell of him?
- "the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away" (8:39). What happened to Philip?
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- The men with Saul "stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one" (9:7). In Paul's own telling, they "saw the light" but "didn’t understand the voice" (22:9). How do the two fit?
- In 9:10-16 Acts says only "the Lord". Who speaks to Ananias?
- "He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank." (9:9). Why?
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- Cornelius "feared God" and "always prayed to God" (10:2). Why was he told to send for Peter?
- "not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God" (10:41). Why didn't the risen Jesus show himself to everyone?
- Cornelius "fell down at his feet, and worshiped him" (10:25). Why did Peter tell him to stand up?
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- Some said, "It is necessary to circumcise them" (15:5). Did the meeting in Jerusalem say the Gentiles who believed must be circumcised?
- Peter asks, "why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" (15:10). What is the yoke?
- Paul and Barnabas "separated from each other" over John, who was called Mark (15:37-39). Who was right?
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- "immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia" (16:10). Who are "we"?
- "he took and circumcised him" (16:3). Why did Paul circumcise Timothy?
- "they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia" (16:6). How were they forbidden, and why?
- Paul says "men who are Romans" (16:37) after the magistrates have sent to let them go. Had he said it before, and why does he say it now?
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- Paul "reasoned with them from the Scriptures" (17:2). Which Scriptures?
- "saying that there is another king, Jesus!" (17:7). Is that what Paul had said?
- "TO AN UNKNOWN GOD" (17:23). Were the Athenians already worshiping the true God at that altar?
- "As some of your own poets have said" (17:28). Who were they?
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- Eutychus "was taken up dead" (20:9), and Paul says, "his life is in him" (20:10). Was Eutychus dead?
- "I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem" (20:22). What does Paul mean?
- "the Holy Spirit has made you overseers" (20:28). What were these overseers?
- Paul says, "remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’" (20:35). Where did Jesus say it?
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- The disciples at Tyre "said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem" (21:4). Was Paul going against the Spirit when he went?
- "Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself" (21:26). Why did Paul do it?
- "Aren’t you then the Egyptian…?" (21:38). Who was the Egyptian?
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- Paul said to the high priest, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall!" (23:3). Was he right to say it?
- Paul said, "I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest" (23:5). Does Acts say more about it?
- "I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees" (23:6). Why did Paul cry this out?
- "The following night, the Lord stood by him" (23:11). Who stood by Paul?
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- "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?" (26:28). What did Agrippa mean?
- "for this has not been done in a corner" (26:26). What hasn't been done in a corner?
- Paul says he is "saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen" (26:22). Which passages does he mean?
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