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BIBL 364 Quiz 2 Liberty University
- According to Polhill, about how long was the period of “Paul’s silent years” when he escaped to Tarsus and remained there until Barnabas came for him in Acts 11?
- According to Polhill, Antioch was the __________ largest city in the Roman Empire.
- According to Polhill, both Luke’s report of Saul/Paul’s conversion and even Saul/Paul’s own testimony centered on one fact. What was that?
- According to Polhill, how many men did Cornelius command in his role as a centurion?
- According to Polhill, how many times does Luke record the story of Saul/Paul’s conversion?
- According to Polhill, how many times was Cornelius’ side of the story told in Acts 10?
- According to Polhill, in response to their acceptance of the gospel, Peter himself baptized Cornelius and his friends.
- According to Polhill, Jesus assured Saul/Paul a freedom from persecution as long as he ministered for Him.
- According to Polhill, Peter’s statement in 5:29, “We must obey God rather than men,” is a dangerous saying. Why does he say that?
- According to Polhill, Philip’s witness to the Samaritans and to the Ethiopian was a witness to the ends of the earth.
- According to Polhill, the “laying on of hands” for those charged with handling the food distribution should be equated with our current practice of ordination of clergy.
- According to Polhill, the gift of foretelling the future that Agabus demonstrated was fairly common in the early church.
- According to Polhill, the salvation event with Cornelius and friends is often called.
- According to Polhill, the statement of the high priest in 5:28 about bringing “this man’s blood upon us” indicated he feared the apostles were charging them with murder.
- According to Polhill, the timing of Acts 6:1 (NIV: “in those days”) was
- According to Polhill, the trial of Stephen
- According to Polhill, to what does Luke compare Saul’s actions against the church?
- According to Polhill, was Simon the magician a true believer or a non‐believer headed to destruction?
- According to Polhill, what is the significance of the story of Stephen in the flow of the Acts story?
- According to Polhill, what was the focus of Peter’s vision of the unclean animals?
- According to Polhill, what was the one thing that both Peter and his friends and Cornelius and his friends knew for certain?
- According to Polhill, what was the role of the Jerusalem church during this time?
- According to Polhill, which group held to an oral tradition as well as the written law, making them more flexible and open to change?
- According to Polhill, who directed the events in the encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch?
- According to Polhill, who made the final decision on the choice of men to solve the problem of food for the Hellenistic widows?
- According to Rasberry, there are about ____ references to prayer in Acts.
- Fowler notes that Stephen was preaching “the kind of gospel that would get him into trouble” because he was presenting Jesus as
- Fowler points out that threats to God’s plan always come from outside the “church invisible” (the true fellowship of God’s people).
- Fowler states that in Peter’s vision in Acts 10, God was stating that ______ must not interfere with the spread of the gospel.
- Fowler states that Luke presents two main themes in Stephen’s message. The first is that that the Jews have a penchant for rejecting God’s chosen leaders. What is the second?
- How many Jewish men had accompanied Peter from Joppa to the home of Cornelius?
- Per Rasberry, the focus regarding prayer in Acts 2:42 is prayer ______.
- Polhill notes that Cornelius is a pious man. Which of the acts of Jewish piety is NOT mentioned by Luke as being practiced by Cornelius?
- Polhill points out that when Peter went to Jerusalem after the event with Cornelius, the group in Jerusalem raised questions about
- Polhill shows that Luke likens the dispersal of the believers out of Jerusalem to what?
- Rasberry states that “true Christian __________ has God at its center.”
- The advice of Gamaliel in the offense of the apostles was to ______.
- While Peter was preaching to Cornelius and his friends, …