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| 1. | Paul sent Timothy and ____ to Macedonia ahead of him, while he stayed in Ephesus a little longer. |
| 5. | According to the Jerusalem Council, Christians were not required to follow the Jewish customs, but they were told to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of ____ animals, and from sexual immorality. |
| 9. | On the first day of the week at Troas, the believers gathered to break bread. Paul preached all night because he was leaving the next day. A young man named ____ fell asleep, fell from a third-story window, and was found dead, but Paul raised him back to life. |
| 10. | The prophet ___ (Ac.11:27) prophesied that Paul would be bound by the Jews in Jerusalem and handed over to the Gentiles. Paul wanted to obey God's will (Ac.20:22) rather than physical safety. |
| 12. | After receiving permission from the commander to speak to the crowd, Paul spoke to them in ____ before he was taken into the barracks. By speaking in this language, he showed that he was one among them. |
| 13. | The city clerk's intervention was the best defense against the threat that ____ and the craftsmen posed to Paul. |
| 15. | Christianity, known as the Way, had such a great influence on the Ephesians that the local pagan worship community feared the temple of the great goddess Artemis (Greek) / Diana (Roman) would be discredited, and soon the whole city was in an uproar. They believed that the goddess's image fell from ____. Her temple was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. |
| 17. | In Acts 22:1–21, Paul defends himself, revealing a detail absent from Acts 9—a temple vision in which the Lord warned him to leave Jerusalem because they would not accept his testimony about Jesus. The crowd listened quietly until he declared his divine commission to preach to the ___. |
| 18. | From Miletus, Paul and his companions sailed past Cyprus and landed at ____ to unload cargo. They stayed seven days with the disciples, who warned Paul through the Spirit not to go to Jerusalem. After kneeling on the beach to pray, Paul's group continued their journey. |
| 19. | After encouraging the Ephesian disciples, Paul left for Macedonia. Then he stayed in Greece for three months. A Jewish plot thwarted his plan to sail for Syria, so he returned through Macedonia. Paul and Luke sailed from Philippi after the feast of Unleavened Bread to rejoin his companions in ____. |
| 20. | Luke recorded Paul doing the the same type of miracles as ____. Both healed a lame man, exorcised demons, defeated sorcerers, raised the dead, and escaped from prison |
| 23. | From Troas, Paul walked to Assos—likely to save distance, pray, and visit locals—while his companions sailed ahead. Rejoining them in Assos, Paul sailed past Ephesus to Miletus, rushing to reach Jerusalem by ____. |
| 25. | Paul concluded the speech by recalling the words of Jesus, "It is more blessed to give than to ___." It is an agraphon. |
| 26. | God healed the sick through ____ that had touched Paul's body. |
| 29. | From Tyre, Paul and his team went to Caesarea, where they stayed at the house of _____ the evangelist, one of the seven. Ac.8:40. His four unmarried daughters were prophetesses. |
| 30. | The angry mob shouted, 'Great is ____ of the Ephesians!' They seized Gaius and Aristarchus and rushed into the theater, which could hold 25,000 people. |
| 31. | Since it was not legal to flog a Roman citizen who had not even been found guilty, the commander released Paul and ordered the ___ to assemble. |
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| 2. | Paul preached in the Ephesus synagogue for three months until some of the Jews became obstinate. Then Paul took the disciples and went to the lecture hall of ____ and had discussions daily for two years, so that the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord. Probably during this time, the churches mentioned in Revelation were formed by those who heard Paul's messages. |
| 3. | “I am ready to die in Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord.” When Paul could not be ____, the people said, “The Lord’s will be done.” |
| 4. | When the Jews from Asia saw Paul in the Jerusalem Temple, they stirred up the crowd against him. One of the reasons was that they assumed Paul had brought _____, a Gentile from Ephesus, into the Temple. |
| 6. | The seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, tried to ____ the name of the Lord over a demon-possessed man, but the man jumped on them and overpowered them all. They couldn't drive out the demon because they didn't believe in Jesus. |
| 7. | When the commander could not determine the truth about who Paul was and what he had done because of the uproar, he ordered Paul to be taken into the ____. The crowd shouted, "Away with him!" (Similar to the cry of the crowd about 27 years ago against Jesus) |
| 8. | What happened to Sceva's sons caused the name of the Lord to be held in high honor. Many believers confessed their evil deeds, and those who practiced sorcery ___ their scrolls publicly. |
| 11. | Paul knelt with all of the Ephesian elders and prayed. What ____ them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. |
| 14. | John's baptism was the baptism of ____. |
| 16. | To prove that Paul did not teach the Jews to turn away from Moses’ Law, the elders suggested that he join four men who had taken a vow and participate in the ____ rites with them. Num.6:13-20 |
| 19. | During Paul's third missionary journey at Ephesus, ____ of John's disciples were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, they received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. Ac.8:17. "Without the Holy Spirit, living as a true Christian is impossible." |
| 21. | Paul said, "I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task of ___ to the gospel of God's grace." |
| 22. | Paul was a Jew, born in Tarsus but brought up in _____. Under Gamaliel, he was trained in the Law of Moses. |
| 24. | At Miletus, Paul sent for the Ephesian elders. In his farewell speech, he recalled his three years of faithful ministry among them, revealed his plan to go to Jerusalem despite impending trials, and exhorted them to ___ the church in the midst of false teachers. He committed them to God's grace and reminded them that he had not coveted anyone’s wealth, but had worked with his own hands to supply his needs and those of his companions. |
| 27. | The rioters dragged Paul from the Temple and were trying to kill him. The commander of the Roman troops arrested him and ordered that he be bound with two _____. |
| 28. | When Paul’s team reached Jerusalem, they went to see ____ and the elders. He shared with them about his ministry among the Gentiles. However, they told him that they had been informed that he was teaching the Jews to turn away from Moses’ Law and customs. |
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