Bible Questions #4529- 4551

By Joyce Webb

Acts Chapter 21 Vs. 16-40

4529. Paul and a few other men have come to Jerusalem. An older man invited Paul and the others to stay with him.

Vs. 17 The brethren (other believers) were happy to see Paul.

Vs. 18 The next day Paul went to see the “elders” —the leaders of the believers in Jerusalem.
One man is named—__________________. (This man is Jesus’ brother. He wrote a book in the New Testament. Before Jesus’ resurrection—his brothers did not believe he was God’s son.

I have often wondered about that—because they must have heard how Jesus came to be born and his birth in Bethlehem, the angels, the wisemen’s visit. Etc. They saw his miracles. Yet they still did not believe—-not until he died and came alive again.)

4530. Vs. 19 After Paul greeted everyone, he began to tell them about all the things on his trip. He talked about his preaching to the G______________________ people.

4531. Vs. 20 The group at Jerusalem told Paul of all the
J____________________ people who now had become believers.

4532. Vs. 21,22 Many of the Jews were now believers in Jesus—there became a question about the law of Moses. The question now was—do the new believers have to be c____________________________ as Moses law says.

Some were saying—they did not need to obey the laws of Moses any more—-others said that they must obey them. This became a serious argument. Now that Paul had come—they wanted to know what he thought about it.

4533. Vs. 23-24 The group at Jerusalem wanted Paul to show the new believers that he believed in keeping Moses’ laws. They wanted Paul to take the Nazarite vow. This vow (promise) was to show a person’s devotion to God. It was done for a certain amount of time.

Verse 24 Tells of one thing that the men did when they took this vow. What was it? ____________________________________
____________________________________________________

(Other things they did not do during this time—was —they did not drink wine, or eat grapes.)

4534. Verse 25 The leaders at Jerusalem said that the only rules they had for new believers were—-
1. _______________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________
3._________________________________________________

4535. Vs. 26 Paul agreed to take the vow. What did he do?
____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
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4536. Vs. 27 How long was this vow to be kept? ________________________________________

4537. Vs. 28 Paul was in the temple—the days of the vow were almost finished—Some Jews from Asia saw Paul and what did they do?
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________

4538. Vs. 28 What did they say Paul was doing? They said he was ___________________ men everywhere to disobey the___________________ .
He had polluted (made dirty) the T____________________
—-by bringing G__________________ into it.

4539. Vs. 29 They said this because they had seen Paul with Gentile believers in the city. They supposed that he brought them into the temple—they had not seen them in the temple—they just thought he brought them into the temple.

Vs. 30 The Jews of the city became angry at this news. The people all started talking about it. Some of them did what—to Paul?
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________

4540. Vs. 31 What was their plan to do to Paul? ____________
____________________________________________________

4541. Vs. 31-32 The news of what was happening—was heard by the _______________________ of the Roman army group that was over the city of Jerusalem.

4542. When he came to the crowd—they were b_____________ Paul. He made them stop.

4543. He tied up Paul with ___________________.

He wanted to know what Paul had done that made the people so angry.

Vs. 34 Some of the people said one thing—some of the people said something different.

The captain of the army did not know what to believe.

4544. So he took Paul to the __________________. (Where the Roman army was staying.)

4545. Vs. 35 The crowd was so angry—that when they reached the stairs—the soldiers had to pick up Paul and ___________________ him to keep him safe from the people.

4546. Vs. 36 The people kept yelling _____________________________________________________

4547. Vs. 37 Inside the building, Paul spoke to the captain in the _____________________ language. The captain was surprised that Paul knew this language.

4548. Vs. 38 The captain had thought that Paul was an ___________________________ who had been causing problems and had led (how many) ______________________ men into the wilderness and they were killed.

4549. Vs. 39 Paul said, I am a man from _____________________. I am a citizen of an important city.

4550. Paul wanted to speak to the _____________________.

4551. Vs. 40 Paul stood on the stairs and called the people to come near.
Then he began to talk to them in the _______________________ language.