Meeting with the Elders of Ephesus

(Acts 20:17-38.)

1. 1.Give an account of the night meeting at Troas.
2. 2.How did it happen that a meeting was held at that time?
3. 3.State the course of the journey from that point onward.
4. 4.From what place did Paul send for the elders of the church at Ephesus to come to him?
5. 5.When they had come to him, of what did he remind them? Verse 18.
6. 6.What could he say of his service to the Lord? Verse 19.
7. 7.How faithful had he been in the ministry? Where had he taught, and whom? Verse 20.
8. 8.What had been the burden of his testimony to them? Verse 21.
9. 9.What did he say of his present condition and his journey? Of what was he ignorant? Verse 22.
10. 10.Of what thing was he nevertheless sure? What assurance had he of this? Verse 23.
11. 11.How did this prospect affect him? How did he hold his life? What was the sole object of his life? Verse 24.
12. 12.What did he say as to their meeting again? Verse 25.
13. 13.From what did he say he was clear? Verse 26.
14. 14.How was this? Verse 27.
15. 15.In view of all this, what exhortation did the apostle give? What other title did he give to the church? What relation did he say the elders sustained to it? Who had placed them in that position? What were they to do? How did he indicate the value of the church? Verse 28.
16. 16.What made this exhortation so necessary? Verse 29.
17. 17.What gave special point to the exhortation, "Take heed unto yourselves"? Verse 30.
18. 18.What admonition does the apostle therefore repeat? What did he call upon the elders to remember? Verse 31.
19. 19.In conclusion, to what did he commend them? What is the Word able to do? Verse 32.
20. 20.What did Paul say of his own unselfishness? Verse 33.
21. 21.How disinterestedly had he labored? Verse 34.
22. 22.What had he thereby showed them? What words of the Lord Jesus are to be remembered? Verse 35.
23. 23.When Paul had thus spoken, what did he do? Verse 36.
24. 24.How were they all affected? Verse 37.
25. 25.What indicates the great affection the brethren had for Paul, and their appreciation of his labors? What last act of kindness did they do? Verse 38.

Additional Questions and Suggestions

1. 1.Nothing more sublime and touching can be found than this account and the words of the apostle as he talked, with the certainty of persecution before him. The instruction is most valuable, and so concise that not a single word can be passed lightly over. Special thought and study should be given to it, so that every sentence may be fixed in the mind exactly as the apostle spoke it.
2. 2.Compare verse 19 with the Revised Version, and note how the word "temptations" is used in its original signification of "trials."
3. 3.Compare verse 24 and Phil. 1:12-20.
4. 4.What is the church of God called? What are the elders or overseers to do for it? What is one who feeds a flock? What is an overseer? Has it any such meaning as taskmaster or ruler? Compare 1 Peter 5:1-5.

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