Witnessing to the Heathen

(Acts 14:1-22.)

1. 1.Name the two apostles whose labor is recorded in Acts 13.
2. 2.What places did they visit, as recorded in that chapter?
3. 3.What occurred at the last place mentioned?
4. 4.How were the apostles treated?
5. 5.What did they do? and to what place did they go?
6. 6.When they came to Iconium, what did they do? How did they speak? Verse 1.
7. 7.What did the unbelieving Jews do? Verse 2.
8. 8.What evidence have we that the apostles were not discouraged by this prejudice against them? What, indeed, seems to have been the cause of their long stay in Iconium? How did they speak while there? What did the Lord do as they spoke? What testimony did the Lord give to the Word? Verse 3.
9. 9.What effect did the preaching of the Gospel have on the people of the city? What evidence is there that the entire city took their stand either for or against the truth? Verse 4.
10. 10.To what did the prejudice which the Jews had created against the apostles finally lead? Verse 5.
11. 11.What did the apostles then do? To what portion of the country did they go? Verse 6.
12. 12.What did they do there? Verse 7.
13. 13.Tell the condition of the lame man at Lystra, who heard Paul preach. Verse 8.
14. 14.When Paul saw him in the congregation, what did he perceive? Verse 9.
15. 15.What did he say to him? What immediately took place? Verse 10.
16. 16.What did the people say when they saw this miracle? Verse 11.
17. 17.What names did they give to the apostles? Verse 12.
18. 18.What did they at once proceed to do? Verse 13.
19. 19.When the apostles heard of it, what did they do? Verse 14.
20. 20.How did they address the people? What did they say of themselves? What did they say they were preaching? In what character did they present God to the people? What contrast did they make between the gods that the people worshiped and the God whom the apostles preached? Verse 15.
21. 21.What did God allow in time past? Verse 16.
22. 22.What did He nevertheless not neglect? How does God give all men witness of Himself? Verse 17.
23. 23.How did this presentation of the true God affect the people of Lystra? Verse 18.
24. 24.What reversal of public opinion soon took place? Who were instrumental in stirring up this persecution? How severely was Paul treated? Verse 19.
25. 25.What took place as the disciples stood round his body? What evidence have we that Paul was not at all dismayed by what had taken place? Where did the apostles next go? Verse 20.
26. 26.What was their course after preaching at Derbe? Verse 21.
27. 27.What did they do on their return journey? Of what was Paul well qualified to assure the disciples? Verse 22.
28. 28.Give a brief summary of the first twenty-two verses of this chapter.

Additional Questions and Suggestions

1. 1.Prejudice and opposition usually have the effect of discouraging workers, or at least of causing them to think that the field is not a profitable one to remain in; what was the effect on the apostles? Note verses 2, 3. "The unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected towards the brethren. Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord."
2. 2.Note especially the influence of the preaching as indicated in verse 4. It was not for nothing that the apostles abode in Iconium a long time, in spite of, or, rather, because of, the prejudice. They remained until all in the city had taken their stand either for or against the truth. Can the "multitude of the city" mean any less than all in the city? Does the statement that "the multitude of the city was divided, a part held with the Jews, and a part with the apostles," give any indication of the proportion of believers in the city?

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