Across 6. Father of the twelve patriarchs. 7. ____ was the royal title given to the queen or queen mother of the Ethiopian kingdom. Her real name was Amanitare. 9. The ____ throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace because Saul’s conversion removed a major persecutor. It was strengthened and grew in number, living in the fear of the Lord. God works through both times of persecution and times of peace to accomplish His purposes. 11. Saul regained his sight, was baptized, ate, and regained his strength. He then grew more powerful and began to preach in ____ that Jesus is the Son of God 13. On their way back to Jerusalem, the apostles preached the gospel in many Samaritan villages. Earlier, ____ had wanted to call down fire from heaven to consume them. 14. In the three trials before the Sanhedrin recorded by Luke up to Acts 7, the first ended with a warning (4:17- 21), the second with a warning and flogging (5:40), and the third with ___. 15. Philip’s willingness to preach the gospel to the people of ____ demonstrates an openness that had not characterized Jesus’ disciples earlier (Jn.4). Sometimes God takes us out of our comfort zones to carry out His mission. 17. When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them ___ to buy this ability. His action introduced a new word in church history: ‘Simony'. He wanted to bring glory to himself rather than to God. Peter rebuked him, and he repented. 18. The ____ were Jews who had intermarried with Gentiles settled in the land by the Assyrians after the conquest of Israel (Northern) in 722 B.C. They opposed the rebuilding of the temple in Ezra’s day and later built their own temple on Mount Gerizim, in rivalry with the temple on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Jews did not associate with them. 22. When Peter and ____ heard that the Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they came to Samaria, prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit, and laid their hands on them. 25. Moses was no ___ child. For three months, he was cared for in his home despite Pharaoh’s threat. 26. At ____, Peter healed Aeneas, a paralytic for eight years, and all who lived there turned to the Lord. 27. Like Joseph, Jesus was rejected by His brethren and sold for the price of a ___. Nevertheless, God was with both Joseph and Jesus and exalted them. 29. As Philip preached the good news, people believed and were baptized, including ___. 32. The eunuch asked Philip to explain the passage he was reading, and Philip told him the ___ about Jesus. The eunuch took the gospel to Africa. 33. Saul's hometown. 37. The God of glory appeared to Abraham in ____ and said, ‘Leave your country and your people and go to the land I will show you,’ before he lived in Haran. 38. An angel of the Lord told Philip to go down to Gaza, and on his way, he met an Ethiopian eunuch who was reading the book of ___-. 41. When the Grecian Jews tried to kill Saul, the believers sent him to ____. 43. On their second visit, Joseph’s brothers recognized him. Similarly, at the Second Coming of Jesus, the Jews will recognize Him as the ___. 45. The Israelites made an idol in the form of a calf and offered sacrifices to it, thereby disobeying Moses’ law. Consequently, God turned away and gave them over to the worship of the ___ bodies. Rom.1:21-25 47. Stephen ____ for his executioners, just as Jesus did before His death: ‘Lord, receive my spirit, do not hold this sin against them.’ His body, not his soul, fell asleep, awaiting the resurrection (1 Thes. 4:16–17). He died in peace, doing what was right, even at the cost of his life. Mat.10:28 48. The Freedmen opposed Stephen, and they charged him with blasphemy against God, Moses, the holy place, and the Law. He responded by turning the accusation back on them, pointing out their rejection of the patriarchs, the Law, and the prophets, their resistance to the Holy Spirit, and their betrayal and murder of the ___ One.” 49. ___ members of Jacob's family went down to Egypt. 50. Saul was blind for ____ days, and his companions led him to Damascus, to the house of Judas, where he spent the time in fasting and praying. Before, he was preying on Christians. 52. The first great revelations of God had, taken place in foreign lands, Ur, ____, Midian, long before the temple existed. 53. Moses tried to deliver his people, but they did not recognize his role, so he fled to ___, where he settled and had two sons. 54. Moses, the great deliverer of his people, was born, preserved, and protected by Pharaoh’s daughter—the very household that had sought to destroy him. He was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech. Yet in Ex. 4:10, he says, ‘I am ___ of speech,’ likely due to fear, anxiety about confronting Pharaoh, or reluctance.

Down 1. It looks like there is a gap in Acts 9, V23, 'after many days had gone by'. According to Galatians 1:17, he went to ____, then returned to Damascus. 2. Abraham stayed in Haran until the death of his ____; then God appeared to him again and asked him to go to the land He would show him. 3. ____ said, ‘God will send you a prophet like me from your own people.’ Israel’s history pointed to a Redeemer of the world, but they rejected Him. 4. On his journey to Damascus to bring those who belonged to the ___ to Jerusalem as prisoners, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around Saul. He fell to the ground and heard a voice. 5. Note the parallels between Philip’s conversation with the eunuch and Jesus’ conversation with two people walking on the road to ____. In each case, what begins as confusion ends in clarity, faith, and action. 7. The Holy Spirit led Philip to the eunuch, and after baptising him, He took Philip away. Philip then appeared at Azotus and preached the gospel in all the towns until he reached ___. Twenty-one years later, Acts 21:8 mentions that he was living there. 8. Like Stephen, ____ was one of the seven appointed to oversee the distribution of food. He took the gospel into Samaria and then indirectly to Ethiopia. He did many miraculous signs and there was great joy in the city. 10. David desired to build a temple for the Lord, but it was Solomon who built it. At its dedication, he acknowledged that God cannot be confined to a man-made building. "Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My ___." 1Ki. 8:27, Is. 66:1-2 12. Simon had practiced ___ for a long time and amazed many people with his magic. Samaritans believed he had divine power. 15. Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named ____. 16. An angel appeared to Moses in a burning bush near Mount Sinai and said, ‘I have seen the oppression of My people in Egypt, ___ their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.' Similarly, during the tribulation, God will again intervene to deliver Israel (Jesus' second coming). 19. Moses, whom the Israelite leaders had rejected as their ___ and judge, was sent by God to fulfill that very role with His help. 20. Stephen addressed his hearers as ___ people with uncircumcised hearts and ears. 21. In a vision, the Lord appeared to ____ and told him to go to Saul. Meanwhile, Saul had seen in a vision a man come and lay his hands on him to restore his sight. 23. This is the first time Luke uses the term ____ for Christians in Acts. 24. Jesus said to Ananias, ‘This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.’ Who was Jesus referring to? 28. ____ followed God into unknown territory on the word of God alone, but the Jews in Stephen’s day were not willing to depart from their thinking even though God’s word was leading them to do so as Stephen would point out. 30. Although Stephen did not explicitly mention Jesus until the end of his speech, he implicitly pointed to Him throughout by drawing parallels between the experiences of ___ and Moses. 31. At ____, Peter raised Tabitha from the dead; she was always doing good and helping the poor. Many who lived there believed in the Lord. Jn.14:12 34. The first christian martyr was ____. 35. ___ was the sign of the Abrahamic covenant, which included the promises of land, descendants, and blessing. However, it gave way to the New Covenant established through Jesus Christ.(6:14) 36. When Saul came to Jerusalem, the disciples were afraid of him, but ____ brought him to the apostles. 39. When the Jews tried to kill Saul, his followers lowered him in a ___ through an opening in the wall. Ironically, the persecutor became the persecuted. 40. After Stephen’s speech, the Sanhedrin were furious with him. They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. He looked up to heaven and saw the Son of Man ____ at the right hand of God, highlighting His welcome, defense, and honor of Stephen at the moment of his death, despite earthly rejection. 1Tim.2:5 42. The expansion of the church from Jerusalem began as Stephen’s execution sparked the first widespread persecution of Christian Jews, causing all except the apostles to be ____ throughout Judea and Samaria. They preached the word wherever they went, beginning of the fulfillment of Acts 1:8. 44. When Pharaoh tried to destroy the Hebrew babies, Moses was born. Similarly, ___ the Great attempted to destroy the Jewish babies at the time of Jesus’ birth. 46. Moses spent ___ years in Egypt, ___ years in a foreign land, and ____ years in the wilderness leading the Israelites to Canaan. 51. As Stephen was being put to death, ____ was there, giving approval and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him. He began to destroy the church.