Acts Of The Apostles

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1. Multiple choice: To Whom did Luke  address the Acts of the Apostles? (a) Hermas; (b) Theophilus; or (c) Alexander.

 

 

2. Question: Jesus contrasted the baptism of the Holy Spirit with water baptism at  the hands of what great prophet  born just before Jesus?

 

3. Multiple choice: How many men dressed in white apparel (obviously angels) were present and visible at Jesus' ascension into heaven? (a) Three; (b) two; or (c) seven.

 

 

 

1. (b) Theophilus (Acts 1:1). Luke also addressed his Gospel to Theophilus. The name is combination of two Greek words meaning  "Lover of God"

 

2. John the Baptist (Acts 1:5).

 

3. (b) Two (Acts 1:10).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: In John 21, which disciple did Jesus instruct twice to follow Him? (a) The disciple whom Jesus loved; (b) Thomas; or (c) Peter.

2. Fill in the blacks: The third time Jesus asked Peter if he loved Him, He told Peter to ------- ------
--------.

3. True of false? Because Jesus said of the disciple whom He loved, "If  I will that he remain till I come," it was rumored that this disciple would not die.

 

1. (c) Peter (John 21:17-22).

 

 

2. (b) Feed His sheep (John 21:17

 

3. True  (John 21:23). In the next verse, John identified  himself as the disciple whom Jesus  loved. He wrote, "This is the disciple who testifies of these things" (v.24).



Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: The second time Jesus asked Peter if he loved Him, He instructed Peter to
------------ His sheep.

2. Multiple choice: What did Jesus tell the disciples to do when they reached shore after fishing? (a)
"Follow Me"; (b) "Feed My sheep"; or (c) "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."

3. Fill in blank: The first time Jesus asked Peter if he loved Him, He told Peter to feed His -------.

 

 

1. Tend (John 21:16).

 

 

2. (c) "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught" (John 21:10). The fish which they had caught had been caught at Jesus instruction. By themselves, the disciples had fished all night without success (vv. 3,6).

 

3. Lambs (John 21:15).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Question: Whom did Jesus tell to "reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side"?

2. True or false? Both Jesus' unbroken bones and His pierced side were fulfillments of Jewish Scripture.

3. John recorded  all the signs Jesus performed while He was on earth.

 

 

 

1. Thomas (John 20:27).

 

2. True (John 19:36, 37). The unbroken bones fulfilled  Psalm 34:20 , and the pierced side fulfilled  Zechariah 12:10 and 13:6.

 

3.False (John 20:30).  In fact, John supposed that if all that Jesus had done was recorded ,"the world itself could not contain the books that would be written" (21:25).



Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: In answering Pilate, who did Jesus say had the greater sin? (a) Pilate; (b) Caiaphas; (c) the one who delivered Jesus  to Pilate.

2. After Jesus had risen from the dead, what  did He say to Mary Magdalene when she realized  who He was? (a) "Peace be with you"; (b) "Receive  the Holy Spirit", or (c) "Do not cling to Me  for I have not yet ascended to My Father".

3. Fill in the blanks: When Jesus first appeared to His disciples after His resurrection, He breathed on them and said, "Receive the -------- ---------."

 

 

1. (c) The one who delivered Jesus to Pilate (John 19:11).

 

2. (c) "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father". (John 20:17).

 

3. "Holy  Spirit (John 20:22).

Gospels -Instruction

1. Multiple choice: What reason did Jesus tell Pilate that His servants would not fight? (a) Because there were too few  of them; (b) because His kingdom was not of this world; or (c) because it would prevent Scripture's being fulfilled.

2. When Jesus was washing the disciples' feet , He said,  "You are not all clean."  What did He mean?
(a) Only their feet were clean; (b) their bodies  were clean but not their feet; or (c) one of them was a traitor.

3. True or false? Jesus told Pilate that if Pilate had any power against Him at all, it had been given to him from above.

 

 

1. (b) Because  His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36).

 

 

2. (c) One of them was a traitor (John 13:11).

 

3. True  (John 19:11).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: What did Pilate tell the Jews to do with Jesus  when they brought Him to him? (a) Let Him go; (b) take Him and kill Him; or (c) take Him and judge Him according to their Law.

2. True or false? When the high priest asked Jesus about His doctrine, Jesus told him that he would do better to ask those who had heard Him about His teachings.

3. Fill in the blank: When the high priest asked Jesus about His doctrine, He answered, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet, and in ---------- I have said nothing."

1. (c) Take Him and judge Him according to their Law (John18:31). Pilate realized that the issue was essentially religious rather then civil. He  did not want to be involved in spiritual disputes.

 

2. True (John 18:21).

 

3."Secret" (John 18:20). 

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: When Jesus acknowledged to the soldiers in the garden  that He  was Jesus  of Nazareth, He said to them concerning the disciples, "If you seek Me, let these..." (a) "Stand with Me  also";(b) "Go their way"; or "be spared punishment."

2. Fill in the blank: After Jesus  told Peter to put his sword in the sheath, He asked, "Shall I not drink the ---------- which  My Father has given Me?

3. In His prayer for  Himself, Jesus defined eternal life as knowing "the only true ----------, and -------
---------- whom You have sent."

 

 

1. (b) "Go their way (John 18:8).

 

 

2. "Cup" (John 18:11). Jesus would not resist arrest and prosecution because this was the way in which the will of the Father  would be accomplished.

 

3. "God...Jesus Christ" (John 17:3).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: Jesus performed works in the world which no one else did; the world saw what He did and hated Him and the Father. This happened, Jesus said, to fulfill the Law's statement, "They  hated Me  without a -------."

2. Multiple choice: In His prayer for  His disciples, Jesus  asked the Father to sanctify them by His truth? (a) God's love; (b) God's word; or (c) God's character.

3. True or false? Christ prayed for the unity of all believers that they might be one with Him and the Father.

 

1. "Cause" (John 15:25).

 

2. (b) God's word (John 17:17).

 

3. True (John 17:20).

Gospels-Instruction

1. True or false? Jesus told His disciples that He  no longer called them servants, because servants do not know what their master does, but friends because He told them all that the Father told Him.

2. Multiple choice: Jesus told His disciples, "In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer," because; (a) "I have overcome the world." (b) "I am with you always."; or (c) You will have the Helper."

3. Why will the Holy Spirit convict the world of sin? (a) Because the Law is vague; (b) because they do not believe in Jesus; or (c) because their deeds are evil.

 

1. True (John 15:15).

 

 

2. (a) "I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). No tribulation which the world generates can destroy the disciple of Jesus. It may kill the disciple, but Jesus will turn that death into victory.

 

3. (b) Because they do not believe in Jesus  (John 16:9). 

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus told the disciples that if He went to prepare  a place for them, "I ---------
 ----------- and -------- you to Myself," so that they might be with  Him.

2. Question: Who did  Jesus  tell the disciples would teach them all things and help them remember all things that He  had taught them, since He  would not be in the world?

3. Multiple choice: What did Jesus say He  would leave with the disciples so that  their hearts should not be troubled  nor afraid? (a) Hope; (b) love; or (c) peace.

1. Come again...receive" (John 14:3).

 

2. The Holy Spirit (John 14:26). Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit when He left  the disciples in death.

 

3. (c) Peace (John 14: 27).

Gospels -Instruction

1. Fill in the blank: Jesus said to Philip, "The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own
------------; but the Father who dwells in Me  does the works."

2. Sentence completion: Jesus  told the disciples, "If you love Me..."

3. Jesus told the disciples, "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to ..."

 

 

 

1. "Authority" (John 14:10).

 

2. "Keep My commandments" (John 14:15).

 

3. "Prepare a place for you" (John 14:2).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "A new commandment I give to you, that ..."

2. Multiple choice: By what characteristic did Jesus say all people would recognize His disciples? (a) Their love for  one another; (b)  their washing each other's feet; or (c) their servant hearts.

3. Sentence completion: "I am the way..."

 

 

1. "You love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another" (John 13:34).

 

 

2. (a) Their love for one another (John 13:35)

 

 

3. "The truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me". (John 14:6).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus gave His disciples an example to follow when He washed their feet. "If  I
then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash ---------- --------feet."

2. Jesus said, " ---------- not, that you be not -----------."

3. Multiple choice:  How does this verse end? "Do  not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow... (a) "will soon be over"; (b) "will worry about its own things"; or (c) "never comes".

1. "One another's" (John 13:14).

 

 

2."Judge...judged" (Matt. 7:1). This is not an absolute prohibition of evaluation but a condemnation of judgmental spirit (cf. vv.2, 6).

 

 

3. (b) "Will worry about its own things" (Matt.6:34).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus approved of Mary's anointing His feet with the expensive oil: "For the ------------- you have with you always, but ------------ you do not have always"

2. Sentence completion: "Walk  while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know...

3. Fill in the blanks:  "He who loves his life will -----------it, and he who hates his life in this world will ---------- it for eternal life."

 

 

1. "Poor...Me" (John 12:8).

 

2.  Where he is going" (John 12:35). The truth of God 's light makes wise living possible; the error of the world's darkness makes disastrous living inevitable.

 

3. "Lose...keep" (John 12:25). This is one of the great paradoxes of Christian living.

Gospels -Instruction

1. Sentence completion: Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and life. He who believes in Me..."

2. Multiple choice: Jesus told  Judas to "let her alone" because Mary had saved the expensive oil for: (a) Anointing His feet; (b) His burial; or (c) His resurrection.

3. Judas questioned  why the fragrant oil that Mary poured on  Jesus' feet was not sold and the money given to the poor. He did this because: (a) His family was poor and would benefit; (b) he wanted access to the money for himself; or (c) he was jealous of the attention Mary paid Jesus.

 

 

1. "Though he may die, he shall live" (John 11:25). Jesus  said this to Martha as  He comforted her following the death of her brother Lazarus whom Jesus would raise from the dead.

 

2. (b) His burial (John12:7).

 

3. (b) He wanted access to the money for himself (John 12:6).

Gospels-Instruction

1.Multiple choice: Why does the hireling flee when he hears the wolf come? (a) He's afraid; (b) he runs for help; or (c) he does not care for the sheep.

2. Fill in he blank: Martha acknowledged that Jesus  was the Messiah when she said, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the  ----------, the Son of God, who is come into the world."

3. Jesus said, "I give them [My sheep] eternal life, and they shall never -----------; neither shall anyone ----------- them out of My hand."

 

1. (c) He does not care for the sheep (John 10:13).

 

2. "Christ" (John 11:27). Martha did not doubt Jesus identity or power, but she had hoped that He would have prevented  her brother's death. She did not expect Jesus to resurrect him. (vv. 21,24).


3. "Perish...snatch" (John 10:28).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: Jesus told the man born blind, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not ----------- may see, and that those who see may be made ----------."

2. Multiple choice:  The sheep follow the shepherd because they know his: (a) Footsteps; (b) scent; or (c) voice.

3. Sentence completion: Jesus said , "I have come that they may have ...

 

 

 

1. "See...blind (John 9:39).

 

 

2. Voice (John 10:4).

 

3. "Life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).

Gospels -Instruction

1. True or false? When Jesus told the Jews, "You are from beneath; I am from above," He meant, "You are from hell; I am from heaven."

2. Sentence completion: "And you shall know the truth, and ..."

3. Fill in the blank: When the Jews told Jesus  they had never been in bondage, He told them, "Whoever commits sin is a ---------- of sin."

 

1. False. "You are of the world;  I am not of this world" (John 8:23).

 

 

2. "The truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).

 

3. "Slave" (John 8:34).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not..."

2. Fill in the blank: Jesus told the Jews in the temple, "I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will ----------- in your sin. Where I go you cannot come."

3. Jesus revealed  a great truth when He told the Jews, "Most  assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was,  ------- ---------."

 

 

1. "Walk in darkness, but have the light of life" (John 8:12).

 

 

2. "Die" (John 8:21).

 

 

3. "I  AM" (John 8:58). He revealed His Deity and His eternality.

Gospels-Instruction

1.Fill in the blank: When the chief priests and Pharisees wanted to know why they had not taken Jesus prisoner yet, the officers answered, "No man ever ----------- like this man!"

2. Jesus told the accusers of the woman caught in adultery, "He who is --------- ---------among you, let him throw a stone at her first."

3. Multiple choice: Jesus told the Jews that if God were their Father they would : (a) Love Jesus;  (b) not lie; or (c) be  baptized.

1. "Spoke" (John 7:46).

 

 

2. "Without sin" (John 8:7).

 

3. (a) Love Jesus (John 8:42). They  would love Him because He  "proceeded forth and came from God".

Gospels-Instruction

1. Question: When did Jesus say that He would raise up "all He has given Me"?

2. Fill in the blank: On the last day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out that out of the hearts of those who believe in Him would flow rivers of living water. He was referring to the ----------
whom the believers in Him would receive.

3. When the people were upset with Jesus  because He  had healed on the Sabbath, He said to them, "Do  not judge according to ----------, but judge with righteous judgment."

 

1. At  the last day (John 6:39,40).

 

2. Spirit (John 7:37-39). The Spirit would be given after Jesus  was glorified.

 

3. "Appearance" (John 7:24).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: Jesus told the woman at the well that the time was coming when  true worshipers would worship the Father: (a) In the synagogue and church; (b) on Mount Gerizim and Jerusalem; or (c) in spirit and truth.

2. Fill in the blank: The Pharisees told Nicodemus that there was no reason  to listen any further to Jesus  because no prophet had arisen out of -----------.

3. Question: What Old Testament happening pictured for the Jewish people Jesus' coming into the world as the true bread from heaven?

 

 

1. (c) In spirit and truth (John 7:52). That  time would be when the Messiah was revealed.

 

 

2. Galilee ( John 7:52).

 

 

3. The Lord's sending them manna in the desert (John 6:48-51).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "All  that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to me..."

2. "But as many as received Him, them He gave..."

3. Multiple choice: Jesus told His brothers that the world hated Him because: (a) They resented the attention He was getting; (b) they thought He deceived them; or (c) He said that its works were evil.

1. "I will by no means cast out (John 6:37).

 

2. "The right to become the children of God, to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12). This promise contrasts Christ's own people rejecting Him. (v11).

 

3. (c) He said that its works were evil (John7:7).  

Gospels-Instruction

1. Sentence completion: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has..."

2. Fill in the blanks: The crowd asked Jesus what they should do to do the works of God. He told them to "----------- in Him whom He ----------."

3. I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never ---------, and He who believes in Me shall never -------.."

1. "Everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life" (John 5:24).

 

 

2. "Believe...sent" (John 6:29).

 

3. "Hunger... thirst" (John 6:35). This verse helps explain the spiritual nature of eating the flesh of Jesus  and drinking  His blood (v. 53).

Gospels- Instruction

1. Fill in the blanks: John the Baptist  said of Jesus and himself, "He must ---------, but I must ---------."

2. "The Father loves the Son, and has given --------- things into His hands."

3. Multiple choice: Jesus sent His disciples to: (a) Sow; (b) reap; or (c) prepare the harvest.

 

 

1. "Increase...decrease" (John 3:30

 

 

2. "All" (John 3:35).

 

3. (b) Reap (John 4:38). The sowing and the preparation for harvest had been done by others before.

Gospels -Instruction

1. Multiple choice: Jesus instructed Nicodemus that "he who does the truth comes to the light..." (a) "To receive God's approval"; (b) "that his deeds may be clearly seen"; or (c) "to receive man's approval".

2. Fill in the blank:  When John  the Baptist's disciples complained to him that Jesus was baptizing and gathering followers, John told them , "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from ----------."

3. Multiple choice: John the Baptist expressed joy at Jesus making disciples  by comparing himself to : (a) The bridegroom;  (b) the bride; or (c) the friend of the bridegroom.

 

 

1. (b) "That his deeds may be clearly seen" (John 3:21).

 

2. "Heaven" (John 3:27).

 

3. (c) The friend of the bridegroom (John 3:29). The friend of the bridegroom was responsible for all the preparations for the celebration, even as John prepared for the ministry of Jesus.

Gospels-Instuction

1. True or false? God sent His Son into the world to condemn the world.

2. Fill in the blanks: "And this is the condemnation, that the ---------- has come into the world, and men love ---------- rather than ----------."

3. Multiple choice: Men love darkness rather the  light because (a) The light is confusing; (b) their deeds are evil; or (c) they don't need the light.

 

1. False (John 3:17).

 

2. "Light...darkness...light" (John 3:19). Light exposes evil deeds, but the darkness hides them.

 

3. (b) Their deeds are evil (John 3:19).

Gospels- Instruction

1. Multiple choice: Jesus told His disciples that the fields were : (a) Brown; (b) golden; or (c) white for harvest.

2. When Jesus told the disciples, "I have food to eat of which you do not know," He  meant that: (a) He had already eaten; (b) His food was doing the Father's work; or (c) He was fasting.

3. Sentence completion: "For God so loved the world that ..."

 

 

1. (c) White (John 4:35). When Jesus surveyed  the multitudes around Him, He saw that they were ready to believe if someone were there to "harvest" them. At the time, Jesus was in Samaria where large numbers did believe.

 

2. (b) His food was doing the Father's work (John 4:34).

 

3. "He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 2:16).

Gospels-Instruction

1. Multiple choice: What did Jesus tell Nicodemus not to marvel at? (a) The signs  He performed ; (b) the Spirit; or (c) that He told him he must be born  again.

2. Fill in the blanks: Jesus answered Nicodemus that, "Unless one is born of --------- and the --------,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God."

3. Jesus questioned Nicodemus's ability to believe heavenly thing, because he did not believe the
---------- things Jesus had told him.

1. (c) That He told him he must be born again (John 3:7)

 

2. "Water...Spirit" (John 3:5)

 

3. "Earthly" (John 3:12)