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     QUESTIONS OVER ACTS CHAPTER 11:
     
    1. What does it say that the apostles and brethren in Judea heard in reference to the Gentiles? 
     
    2. What accusation did the Jewish brethren bring against the apostle Peter? 
     
    3. How did Peter convince them he had done the right thing? 
     
    4. How many Jewish brethren from Joppa had accompanied Peter to Caesarea and now were with him in Jerusalem? 
     
    5. The angel had told Cornelius that Peter would "tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be _____________ ." 
     
    6. Peter said, "And as I ___________ to speak, the Holy Ghost [Spirit] fell on them, as on us at the ____________________ ." 
     
    7. When Peter said that he could not "withstand God" in reference to the household of Cornelius, (1) What does he mean by "withstand God"? (2) Why could he not "withstand God" in this matter?
     
    8. "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the ________________ granted ___________________________________ ." 
     
    9. Where were the men from who had success preaching unto Gentiles (Grecians) in Antioch? 
     
    10. When the church at Jerusalem heard about this, who did they send to help these new Gentile converts and to evangelize?
     
    11. "Who, when he came, and had seen the _____________ of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with _____________________________ they would _______________________________ ." 
     
    12. How, or with what words, is Barnabas described?
     
    13. At this time why does Barnabas go to Tarsus?
     
    14. How long did they assemble with the church at Antioch? 
     
    15. What were the disciples first called in Antioch (and how many times is this word found in the New Testament)? 
    16. What were the three largest cities in the Roman Empire, and where does Antioch of Syria fit in among them? 
     
    17. When prophets came up from Jerusalem to Antioch, what was the name of the one who stood up and foretold of the famine that was to come (and what is the two-fold work of a prophet)? 
     
    18. This famine came to pass in the days of what Caesar? 
     
    19. "Then the disciples, ___________ man according to his ________________ , determined to send relief unto the ________________ which dwelt in Judea." 
     
    20. "Which also they did, and sent it to the _______________ by the hands of Barnabas and Saul."
     
    NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________
     
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    ANSWERS: 1. Acts 11:1; 2. Acts 11:2,3; 3. Acts 11:4; 4. Acts 11:12; 5. Acts 11:14; 6. Acts 11:15; 7. (1) To baptize and accept these people; (2) Because of what God had demonstrated with the household of Cornelius; 8. Acts 11:18; 9. Acts 11:20; 10. Acts 11:22; 11. Acts 11:23; 12. Acts 11:24; 13. Acts 11:25; 14. Acts 11:26; 15. Acts 11:26--Christians (three, Acts 11:26; 26:28; I Peter 4:16); 16. Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch (third); 17. Acts 11:28 (to foretell and to forthtell by Divine inspiration); 18. Claudius Caesar; 19. Acts 11:29; 20. Acts 11:30

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