The Acts of the Apostles - Part 3

Acts Chapter 22

Read chapter 22 and then answer the questions.

The conversion story of Apostle Paul is found three times in the Acts of the Apostles:

  • First in chapter 9,
  • then in chapter 22, and
  • finally in chapter 26.

Here in chapter 22, Paul is recounting his conversion story to a large crowd of Jews standing below the steps of the Antonia Fortress.

His fellow countrymen are so close to his heart that he does everything possible to win them for the Lord. That is why we read in the last verse of chapter 21 that he addresses them in Hebrew and addresses them kindly and politely as ‘brothers and fathers’.

By fathers, Paul probably means the members of the Jewish council, the Sanhedrin, who were surely also among the crowd.

1

Also in this speech, Paul tries to win over the Jews.

He points them to:

Your response:

His place of birth:
His education and training in the city:
His teaching by the Pharisee and scribe:
The fact he was a zealot for:
His persecution of Christians on behalf of:
A devout man according to the law, with a good reputation among all the Jews in Damascus, informed him what God had determined for him. His name:
The place he went to on his return to Jerusalem:
the High Priests and elders.
Gamaliel.
the law.
Tarsus in Cilicia.
Jerusalem.
Ananias.
the temple.

In verse 9 of the speech, we read that those who were with Paul did not hear the voice speaking to him. However, in chapter 9, we read “But the men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but beholding no one.” (Acts 9:7).

At first glance, this seems to be contradictory.

But this is not the case. The Greek word for "hear", as it appears in Acts 22:9 and 26:14, means "to hear and understand at the same time". The Greek word in Acts 9:7, however, expresses that the hearer only perceives the voice as noise, but does not understand the words.

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Elsewhere, Paul writes about how the Lord appeared to him on the way to Damascus:

Your response:

In 1 Corinthians 9:1 it is written:
In 1 Corinthians 15:8 it is written:
And last of all … he appeared to me also.
Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?
3

Where do we read of a second appearance of the Lord in chapter 22?

Your response:

In the verses   and   .

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