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29 Cards in this Set
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Matthaias
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= the man chosen to replace Judas as one of the 12 apostles)
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Gamaliel
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Lame man healed: opposition = the Pharisee (teacher of Paul according to Acts 22:3) who said in Acts 5 that the Sanhedrin should let the apostles go because if what they were doing was not from God it would die out on its own but if it was from God they shouldn’t oppose it
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Barnabas; Ananias and Sapphira
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= Barnabas in Acts 4 sold a piece of land and brought the proceeds to the apostles to distribute among the needy; Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 sold a piece of land
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Choosing of the Seven (Stephen and Philip =
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members of the Seven, who were men chosen from among the Greek-speaking segment of the Christian community in Jerusalem to oversee the daily distribution to the needy; it came about because the Greek-speaking widows had been being neglected); Acts 6
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Stephen
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: first martyr (because he spoke up and, in a similar vein to Jesus’ teaching about the temple, basically said that the temple was not the place where God was going to live and meet people, instead it would happen in and through Jesus); Acts 7
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Herod Agrippa I =
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in Acts 12 he has James (brother of John, one of the sons of Zebedee) beheaded, and imprisons Peter (who miraculously escapes); in a further account of this ruler in the same chapter he dies a dramatic death because he accepts praise for himself from some of his subjects as if he were a god, and does not give glory to God
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Samaria)
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= where the following events happen (Acts 8
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Philip, Simon Magus
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= Philip (from the Seven, also knows as Philip the Evangelist) preaches the gospel in Samaria and the Samaritans believe in Jesus. He calls for apostles from Jerusalem and Peter and John come to Samaria and when they lay hands on these new Samaritan believers they are filled with the Holy Spirit. It must be in some visible way because Simon (a sorcerer who has had a good business among the Samaritans) offers to buy from them the power to do that, and is sternly rebuked by Peter -- the term “simony” in later church history comes from that event. But the main thing is God’s amazing affirmation that Samaritans can be fully part of his kingdom, since God gives them the Holy Spirit, too!
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Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch
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= after Samaria, Philip is led by the Holy Spirit to go down to the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza, and he crosses paths with an Ethiopian eunuch. Philip tells him about Jesus, and he believes and is baptized; another great indication of God’s breaking down of barriers to excluded people (a eunuch could not fully participate in worship in the Jewish temple).
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Conversion of Saul/Paul
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= Acts 9, while Saul was on the road to Damascus persecuting Christians, the risen and exalted Jesus reveals himself to Saul (also called Paul, depending on whether he is primarily with Jews or Gentiles at the time) and he is dramatically changed; struck blind for 3 days and brought into Damascus, he is prayed for by a believer there and receives the Holy Spirit; Paul later recounts the same story twice in Acts, and traced his call to bring the gospel to the Gentiles to his initial encounter with Christ. Paul is the author of 13 letters in the NT.
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Peter and Cornelius, Caesarea
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= Acts 10, while Peter was on a rooftop in Joppa he had three times a vision of unclean animals being let down from heaven in a big sheet and a voice telling him to eat and when he objected the voice said “What God has made clean, don’t you call unclean!” Right afterwards there are men from Cornelius (a Roman centurion so obviously a Gentile, who was a God-fearer, and had a vision from God telling him to have Peter come talk with him)…Peter goes to Caesarea to visit Cornelius, and begins to tell him and his household about Jesus when God pours out the Holy Spirit on them, too: Gentiles though they are!!! Again, God breaking down barriers!
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Barnabas, John Mark
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= they both set out with Paul on the first missionary journey (Barnabas and Paul having been set apart by the Holy Spirit in the context of a prayer meeting in Antioch in Syria); John Mark returned home partway through the trip (causing later conflict between Paul and Barnabas when Barnabas wants to take him along again)
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Sergius Paulus, Elymas/Bar-Jesus, Cyprus
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= the first place they go and preach is the island of Cyprus, where the ruler (proconsul is his title) Sergius Paulus believes, despite (and perhaps because of the consequences of) an attendant of his named Elymas (also known as Bar-Jesus), a Jewish sorcerer who opposed Paul and Barnabas and their message but whom God struck blind because of that.
Lystra = God healed a lame man there through Paul and Barnabas, and in response the crowd tried to offer sacrifices to them as if they were gods, but Paul and Barnabas (sorely distraught by this attempt) convinced them that they were just humans and preached the good news of Jesus, the real God. |
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The Jerusalem Council
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a meeting in Acts 15 we call the “Jerusalem Council” which debated whether Gentiles who followed Christ needed to keep the law of Moses. Paul and Barnabas argued “no they did not need to” and shared about their ministry among the Gentiles. The pivotal testimony was when Peter told about what had happened with Cornelius: this helped carry the day for Paul’s and Peter’s side. The Council, led by James the brother of Jesus (who probably later wrote the book of James), issued a letter stating that the Gentile believers didn’t need to keep the Mosaic law, but instructed them for the sake of getting along with their Jewish brothers and sisters in Christ to not do certain offensive things.
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Paul’s Second Missionary Journey
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Paul’s partner on this journey, after parting ways with Barnabas over the John Mark issue (end of Acts 15); also called “Silvanus,” and co-authored Thessalonian letters with Paul and Timothy (1 Thess 1:1, 2 Thess 1:1)
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Timothy =
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a young man Paul meets in Lystra in Acts 16 (while traveling back through there to strengthen the churches); Timothy’s mother was Jewish but his father was Greek, and Paul took him along as a missionary partner but first had him circumcised in deference to the Jews of that area; co-authored Thessalonian letters with Paul and Silas/Silvanus (1 Thess 1:1, 2 Thess 1:1);Timothy becomes like a son to Paul, who writes two later letters to him that are in the NT (1 and 2 Timothy)
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Lydia
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= a woman Paul meets and leads to Jesus in Philippi, who offers the missionaries hospitality in her home; she was a Gentile God-fearer, a dealer in purple cloth (which would mean she was quite well-off, as that was a lucrative industry); she “and all her household” believed
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Philippi
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= Acts 16, a city visited on this Second Missionary Journey, where Lydia lived, and also where Paul was imprisoned after exorcising the demon from a young woman who had been making a lot of money for her owners by foretelling the future (via the demon); when Paul cast it out she no longer made money for them and they stirred up trouble; this is where Paul and Silas were singing praises to God in the jail at midnight and God sent an earthquake that loosened their chains; they didn’t run away but stayed and led the frightened jailer to the Lord, and all his household, too. Paul writes Philippians to the believers there.
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Thessalonica
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= Acts 17, another city visited on this Second Missionary journey, where there was a lot of opposition stirred up by the non-believing Jews and Paul was basically run out of town. Paul write 1 and 2 Thessalonians to the believers there.
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Beroea
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= Acts 17, another city visited on this Second Missionary Journey, where the Jews were more “noble” than the Jews in Thessalonica in that they searched the Scriptures closely to see that if Paul said was true, and many believed. But the unbelieving Jews from Thessalonica came over and stirred up trouble there, too, and Paul had to leave.
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Athens =
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Acts 17, another city visited on this Second Missionary Journey, where Paul spoke at the Areopagus, a meeting of the city council (probably at Mars Hill), and preached Jesus, using their city’s statue to “the Unknown God” as a point of contact, and telling them that God they didn’t know was the one and only God.
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Corinth
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= Acts 18, another city visited on this Second Missionary Journey, where Paul spent 18 months, and where he met Priscilla and Aquila, a married couple who were tentmakers like Paul and with whom he stayed and worked. A bit later, in Ephesus, this couple met a Jewish man from Alexandria named Apollos, whom they instructed in the way of Jesus and who went on to become an important preacher/leader among the churches, particularly we know at Corinth (Paul talks a good bit about him in his two letters to the Corinthians that are in the NT). Paul was brought before the judgment seat of Gallio, the Roman proconsul of Achaia, here at Corinth.
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Paul came back through old areas he had visited then came to Ephesus, Acts 19, where he spent 2 years and 3 months (Acts 19). A noteworthy incident here was that Paul’s preaching of the gospel meant many people quit purchasing idols of the Ephesian patron goddess Artemis from the silversmiths who made and sold them: that angered them and one named Demetrius particularly stirred up a riot at the great theater there, and the crowds shouted for 2 hours “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” Paul write a later letter “to the Ephesians,” though there is some dispute as to whether that was actually its original destination, which we’ll see when we get to it.
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Agabus
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= a prophet who foretold a famine in Jerusalem (Acts 11) and also that Paul would be arrested in Jerusalem (Acts 22)
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Felix
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= a Roman governor who held Paul in Caesarea after his arrest in Jerusalem, Acts 23-24
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Festus
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= the Roman governor after Felix, Acts 24-25, who continued to keep Paul in prison in Caesarea, hoping to get a bribe. Finally, Paul formally appealed to Caesar, which was his right as a Roman citizen, and was sent as prisoner to Rome
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Herod Agrippa II
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= the last “Herod” we hear about in the NT, he heard Paul speak when he was visiting Festus, and heard him appeal to Caesar.
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Titus
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is a coworker of Paul’s, to whom Paul writes the letter to Titus: Titus is on the island of Crete, and Paul commissions him to appoint elders in the churches and to combat false teaching.
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Onesimus
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is the slave of Philemon, about whom Paul writes the letter to Philemon.
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