Across 4. Peter declared that the religious leaders, the builders of Israel, rejected the Messiah. Yet the stone they rejected has become the ___, the most important stone in God’s plan of salvation. Human rejection does not cancel God's plan! 6. When the believers prayed, they acknowledged the sovereignty and creative power of God, the authority of Scripture, and asked for boldness to speak His word despite the leaders’ threats, and for Him to stretch out His hand to heal and perform miraculous signs through ___.” 10. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. This shows how power for witness comes through prayer, in contrast to the disciples, who slept instead of praying at ___. 12. ___ experienced the same tragic fate as her husband. Shared deception led to shared judgment. 16. Members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen included Jews from Cyrene (North Africa), ___ (Egypt), Cilicia, and Asia. 18. The Holy Spirit filled the believers to witness; Satan filled Ananias and Sapphira to lie; and ___ filled the Sanhedrin to imprison the apostles. 20. Stephen, one of the seven, was a man full of God’s grace and power who performed great wonders and miracles. ____ arose from members of the synagogue. 22. ____ did not believe in the bodily resurrection. 24. After further ___ the Sanhedrin let the apostles go. They could not decide how to punish the apostles because all the people were praising God for the miraculous healing. 25. ___ became the first recorded believer in the church to commit the sin unto death, paralleling the serpent’s entrance into Eden and Eve’s fall in the Old Testament. 26. God exalted Jesus to His own right hand as Prince and Savior, that He might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. The ___, whom God has given to those who obey Him, is also a witness to these things. 27. Peter and John were put in ___ (this was foretold by Jesus Lk.21:12-15) until the next day because it was already evening and too late to begin a hearing. Deut.13:1-5 28. The Sanhedrin commanded the apostles not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But the apostles replied, ‘Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to ___ you rather than God." 29. The ___ were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus. This disturbed the religious leaders because it threatened their authority. Thus they became enemies of the preaching of the gospel. 31. From time to time, those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. The early Christians witnessed with their actions as well as with their words. ____ was an example. 32. Barnabas belonged to the tribe of ___. 35. The Sanhedrin realized that Peter and John were ___, ordinary men, yet they spoke with boldness. They also recognized that they had been with Jesus. 37. The movements led by ___ and Judas collapsed after their deaths. 38. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of Jewish ___ who were deeply connected to the temple system became obedient to the faith in Jesus. 40. _____'s counsel temporarily saved the apostles’ lives and allowed the gospel to continue spreading. 43. The apostles were ___ for disobeying the Sanhedrin's order not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus. (Their first physical suffering) 44. Barnabas was from ____. 45. Many who heard the apostles' message believed and the number grew to ___ thousand. 46. In the first of the three jail-door miracles in Acts, an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, brought the apostles out, and told them to go and preach in the ____ the message of new life. 47. When the Sanhedrin wanted to put the apostles to death, a pharisee stood up and addressed to them: "Let these men go! For if their purpose or activity is of ___ origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them; you will only find yourselves fighting against God."

Down 1. The first explicit use of the word '____' after Pentecost is mentioned in Acts 5. 2. In the early church, the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their ___ was their own, but they shared everything they had. There were no needy persons among them. 3. When the believers heard Peter and John’s report about what the religious leaders had said, they raised their voices together in ___. 5. The Sanhedrin wanted to know by what power or by what ___ Peter and John had healed the crippled man. Jesus had faced the same question during His earthly ministry. 7. The disciples presented the seven men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their___ on them, symbolizing the bestowal of blessing, commissioning them for service, and granting them authority. 8. Son of Encouragement. 9. The captain of the temple guard brought the apostles to the Sanhedrin without using force, because they feared that the people might ___ them. 11. Stephen’s accusers stirred up the people and the religious leaders, and they brought him before the Sanhedrin. All who were sitting there saw that his face was like the face of an ____. 13. Ananias’ sin was that he lied, claiming he had given the full proceeds from the sale of his field. He allowed Satan to fill his heart and lied to the ____. As a result, God judged him, and he fell down and died. 14. The apostles left Sanhedrin, _____ because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Jn.15:21 15. The Twelve apostles wisely delegated the ministry to the widows to seven men who were known to be full of the Spirit and ___, so that they could devote themselves to the ministry of the word. 17. The word ___ is used frequently in the Gospels and Acts, but it is not used in the New Testament Epistles; instead, the writers use terms like brothers, sisters, saints, and children of God. 19. ___ graciously gave Sapphira an opportunity to tell the truth, but she added a lie to her hypocrisy. 21. Internal conflict (Satan’s weapon): The Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being ___ in the daily distribution of food. 22. ____ is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. 23. People brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds/mats so that at least peter's ____ might fall on some of them as he passed by. God's power was revealed through the disciples in healing many sick and demon-possessed. 30. ___, one of the seven chosen to wait on tables, was a Gentile convert to Judaism (a proselyte) 33. Unable to prove Stephen’s arguments, his adversaries falsely accused him of ____ against Moses and God. 34. Apostles never stopped proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the ____. 36. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, boldly told the Sanhedrin—who had condemned Jesus to death—that the crippled man was healed by the name of Jesus Christ of ___, whom they crucified but whom God raised from the dead. Note the change in Peter! 39. The Synagogue of the Freedmen was composed of freed slaves or their descendants. Many were likely Greek-speaking Jews from the Diaspora living in Jerusalem who argued with ____ but were unable to withstand his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he spoke. 41. There were two groups of Jews: the native ‘Hebrews,’ who had lived in Palestine and spoke primarily Aramaic, but also Greek; and the ‘Hellenists’ (Grecian Jews), who had originally lived outside Palestine (Jews of the Diaspora) but were now residing there. They spoke ___ primarily, as well as the language of the regions where they had lived. The basic difference between the Hebrews and Hellenists appears to be linguistic and cultural. 42. The man who was miraculously healed was over ____ years old. 43. Great ___ seized the whole church and all who heard about the tragic death of Ananias and Sapphira..