Geography

1. Question: In what city are "apostles and elders" mentioned three times in Acts 15 as being the leaders of the church?

2. Multiple choice: The letter describing the decision of the Jerusalem council was addressed to gentile believers in one city and two geographic areas. Name the city. (a) Tarsus; (b) Corinth; or Antioch.

3. True or false? Silas returned to Jerusalem after the letter from the Jerusalem council  had been  delivered to the church in Antioch.

1. Jerusalem (Acts 15:2, 4, 6).

 

2. (c) Antioch (Acts 15:23), the city where the controversy over Jewish practice first came to a head (cf. Acts 15:1,2).

 

3. False (Acts 15:34).  He stayed at Antioch and became one of the prophets ministering in the church there.

Geography

1. Multiple choice: As Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch, they sailed from what port city in Pamphylia? (a) Attalia; (b) Seleucia; or (c) Corinth.

2. From what geographic area did people come to the church in Antioch and teach that circumcision was necessary for salvation? (a) Samaria; (b) Judea; or (c) Galilee.

3. To what city did Paul and Barnabas go to discuss the relationship of circumcision to salvation. (a) Antioch; (b) Bethlehem; or (c) Jerusalem.

 

1. (a) Attalia (Acts 14:25,26).

 

2. (b) Judea (Acts 15:1). In Judea were the strongly Jewish believers. They  continually struggled with anyone needing only faith in Christ to be accepted by God.

 

3. (c) Jerusalem (Acts 15:2). It was extremely important that the church be unified on this issue. That unification had to come through an agreement that involved the apostles who were still in the church in Jerusalem.

Geography

1.  Multiple choice: What was the last city Paul and Barnabas visited before retracing their steps to Antioch on their first missionary journey? (a) Derbe; (b) Iconium; or (c) Athens.

2. Question: Acts 14 names three cities where Paul and Barnabas established churches on their first missionary journey. What was one of them?

3. Multiple choice: As Paul and Barnabas headed back to Antioch on their first missionary journey,  they passed through Pisidia and came to what other Roman district? (a) Bithynia; (b) Cilicia; or (c) Pamphylia

1. (a) Derbe (Acts 14:20,21).

 

2. The three cities named are Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch (Acts 14:21). Paul returned to these cities even though he had faced severe opposition in his first visit to each one. He went back to appoint church leadership in each place.

 

3. (c)  Pamphylia (Acts 14:24).

Geography

1. Multiple choice: Where were Paul and Barnabas When the people began to worship them as gods? (a) Lystra; (b) Derbe; or (c) Iconium.

2. While Paul and Barnabas were in Lystra, Jews  came from what two cities to incite the people against the missionaries? (a) Antioch and Iconium; (b) Jerusalem and Damascus; (c) Corinth and Athens.

3. To what city did Paul and Barnabas go after Paul had been stoned and left for dead at Lystra? (a) Antioch; (b) Derbe; or (c) Damascus.

 

1. (a) Lystra (Acts 14:8-13), where there was a temple of Zeus, and where the people believed that sometimes the gods took human form.

 

2. (a) Antioch and Iconium (Acts 14:19).

 

3. (b) Derbe (Acts 14:20).

Geography

1. Multiple choice: After Paul and Barnabas were chased out of Pisidian Antioch by jealous Jews, they went to what city? (a) Jerusalem; (b) Iconium; or (c) Corinth.

2. In what city did Jews and Gentiles first attempt to stone Paul and Barnabas for their preaching of the gospel? (a) Paphos; (b) Lystra; or (c) Iconium.

3. When Paul and Barnabas fled Iconium because of persecution, they went to two nearby cities. What were these cities? (a) Tyre and Sidon; (b) Jerusalem and Jericho; or (c) Lystra and Derbe.

1. (b) Iconium (Acts 13:51).

 

2. (c) Iconium (Acts 14:1-5).

 

3. (c) Lystra and Derbe (Acts 14:6).

Geography

Did you know when people in a nation do not or stop using the principles of doctrine

(The Bible) they begin to believe the  "LIE"

 



 

1. Multiple choice: When John Mark left Paul and Barnabas at Perga where did he go? (a) Jericho; (b) Jerusalem; or (c) Athens.

 

2. In what town in Pisidia did Paul preach a sermon recorded in Acts 13:16-41? (a) Corinth; (b) Antioch; or (c) Berea.

 

3. In Paul's sermon in Acts 13 he says that the witnesses of the death and resurrection were from what locale? (a) Judah; (b) Samaria; or (c) Galilee.

 

 

1. (b) Jerusalem (Acts 13:13).

 

2. (b) Antioch (Acts 13:20) This is not the same Antioch from which Paul and Barnabas were sent. This is Luke's first record of a sermon from the mouth of Paul.

 

3. (c) Galilee (Acts 13:31).

Geography

1. Multiple choice: In what city on Cyprus did Paul and Barnabas find the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, who was receptive to the gospel? (a) Antioch; (b) Paphos; or (c) Cairo.

2. What was the name of the city to which Paul  and Barnabas first sailed after leaving Cyprus? (a) Antioch; (b) Tarsus; or (c) Perga.

3. When John Mark left Paul and Barnabas at Perga, where did he go? (a) Jericho; (b) Jerusalem; or (c) Athens.

1. (b) Paphos (Acts 13:6,7).

 

2. (c) Perga (Acts 13:13).

 

3. (b) Jerusalem (Acts 13:13).