The Gospel at Thessalonica and Berea

(Acts 16:35 to 17:15.)

1. 1.Give an account of Paul's imprisonment at Philippi.
2. 2.Give a detailed account of the occurrences in the night.
3. 3.What took place in the morning? Acts 16:35.
4. 4.Who brought the message to Paul and Silas? Verse 36.
5. 5.What did Paul reply? Verse 37.
6. 6.How did this reply affect the magistrates? Verse 38.
7. 7.What did they do? Verse 39.
8. 8.What did Paul and Silas first do when they left the prison? Verse 40.
9. 9.On departing from Philippi, where did they go? To what place did they come? What did they find there? Chapter 17:1.
10. 10.What custom had Paul which he here followed? Out of what did he reason with the people? Verse 2.
11. 11.What did he affirm from the Scriptures? Verse 3.
12. 12.What was the effect of this teaching? Verse 4.
13. 13.How were the unbelieving Jews affected? With whom did they associate themselves? How much disturbance did they make? Verse 5.
14. 14.When they did not find Paul and Silas, what did they do? What did the mob say that the newcomers had done? Verse 6.
15. 15.What charge did they lay against them before the magistrates? Verse 7.
16. 16.What did the rulers do with the brethren? Verse 9.
17. 17.What did the brethren do with Paul and Silas? To what place did they send them? What did Paul and Silas do on arriving at Berea? Verse 10.
18. 18.How did the Jews in this place compare with those in Thessalonica? In what way did they show their nobility? Verse 11.
19. 19.What was the result of this investigation? Verse 12.
20. 20.How was the work interrupted at Berea? Verse 13.
21. 21.What precautions did the brethren take against the persecution of Paul? Who remained behind in Berea? Verse 14.
22. 22.To what place did the brethren bring Paul? What message did Paul send back by them, as they left him alone at Athens? Verse 15.

Additional Questions and Suggestions

1. 1.Who received the stripes and imprisonment at Philippi? Had any of the other brethren been assaulted by the mob? Yet what did Paul and Silas do as soon as they got out of prison? What words written by Paul did he thus experience? 2 Cor. 1:3-6.
2. 2."Saying that there is another king, one Jesus." See how they tried to fasten the charge of treason upon the disciples. Show how those who are loyal to Jesus may in these days be accused of treason to the state.
3. 3.Compare Acts 17:14, 15 with 1 Thess. 2:17, 18; 3:1-6. From this it will be seen that Paul desired to go back to Thessalonica, and that such was his interest for the brethren in that place, that, much as he needed the help and company of Timothy, he sent him back to Thessalonica, and he remained for a time in Athens alone.

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