A/B League February Blue Sheet Questions
February 10, 2007 Acts 14:1 - Acts 17:15
Acts 14
1. How confirmed the Lord the message of his grace?
2. Why fled they to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the
surrounding country?
3. sit Who said it? When? How?: "The gods have come down to us in human form!"
4. Why brought the priest of Zeus bulls and wreaths to the city gates?
5. sit Who said it? When? How?: "Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men,
human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from
these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea
and everything in them."
6. How has he not left himself without testimony?
7. Who won the crowd over?
8. sit Who said it? To whom? How?: "We must go through many hardships to enter the
kingdom of God."
9. Whom committed Paul and Barnabas to the Lord with prayers and fasting?
10. ref According to Acts 14:27, What reported they?
Acts 15
1. sit Who said it? To whom? What was the result?: "Unless you are circumcised,
according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved."
2. What news made all the brothers very glad?
3. sit Who said it? What was the result?: "The Gentiles must be circumcised and
required to obey the law of Moses."
4. God showed that he accepted whom by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as
he did to us?
5. How do you try to test God?
6. When became the whole assembly silent?
7. ref According to Acts 15, What is written?
8. To whom should we write instead, telling them to abstain from food polluted
by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and
from blood?
9. ref According to Acts 15:24, What have we heard?
10. ref According to Acts 15, Who have risked their lives for the Lord Jesus Christ?
11. What seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us?
12. Where gathered they the church together and delivered the letter?
13. sit Who said it? To whom?: "Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the
towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing."
14. Why did Paul not think it wise to take him?
15. Who had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company?
Acts 16
1. ref According to Acts 16:3, Paul circumcised him, why?
2. Why were the churches strengthened in the faith and grew daily in number?
3. Why passed they by Mysia and went to Troas?
4. sit Who said it? To whom? What happened?: "Come over to Macedonia and help us."
5. sit Who said it? When? What was the result?: "If you consider me a believer in
the Lord, come and stay at my house."
6. Who earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling?
7. sit Who said it? To whom? In response to what?: "In the name of Jesus Christ I
command you to come out of her!"
8. When seized they Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to
face the authorities?
9. Who were thrown into prison after they had been severely flogged?
10. When was there such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison
were shaken?
11. sit Who said it? To whom? What was the reply?: "Sirs, what must I do to be
saved?"
12. When were the jailer and all his family baptized?
13. Why was the jailer filled with joy?
14. sit Who said it? To whom? What happened?: "They beat us publicly without a
trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now
do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and
escort us out".
15. Where went Paul and Silas after they came out of the prison?
Acts 17
1. How reasoned Paul with them from the Scriptures?
2. Why rounded they up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob
and started a riot in the city?
3. How are they all defying Caesar's decrees?
4. Why were the Bereans of more noble character than the Thessalonians?
5. When went the Jews in Thessalonica there too, agitating the crowds and
stirring them up?
Finish the Verses
14: 3, 15, 17, 23
15: 8, 9, 10, 11, 28, 29
16: 9, 10, 18, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 34
17: 11
A/B League February Blue Sheet Answers
February 10, 2007 Acts 14:1 - Acts 17:15
Acts 14
1. 14:3 By enabling Paul and Barnabas to do miraculous signs and wonders.
2. 14:6,5,3 Paul and Barnabas found out about a plot afoot among the Gentiles and
Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.
3. 14:11,10 Who: the crowd; When: when they saw what Paul had done (the man jumped
up and began to walk); How: in the Lycaonian language.
4. 14:13,12 Because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to Paul and
Barnabas (them).
5. 14:15,14 Who: Barnabas and Paul; When: when they heard of the priest of Zeus and
the crowd wanting to offer sacrifices to them; How: they tore their clothes and
rushed into the crowd, shouting.
6. 14:17 He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their
seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.
7. 14:19 Some Jews from Antioch and Iconium.
8. 14:22,20 Who: Paul and Barnabas; To: the disciples in Lystra, Iconium and
Antioch; How: Strengthening them and encouraging them to remain true to the
faith.
9. 14:23 Elders they appointed for them in each church.
10. 14:27 All that God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith
to the Gentiles.
Acts 15
1. 15:1-2 Who: some men who came down from Judea to Antioch; To: the brothers;
Result: it brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them.
2. 15:3 This news that the Gentiles had been converted.
3. 15:5-6 Who: some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees;
Result: The apostles and elders met to consider this question.
4. 15:8,7 The Gentiles.
5. 15:10 By putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our
fathers have been able to bear.
6. 15:12 As they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling them about the miraculous
signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
7. 15:15-18 After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I
will rebuild and I will restore it, that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things that
have been known for ages.
8. 15:20,19 The Gentiles who are turning to God (them).
9. 15:24 That some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you,
troubling your minds by what they said.
10. 15:26,27,25 Judas and Silas.
11. 15:28-29 Not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: you
are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of
strangled animals and from sexual immorality.
12. 15:30 Antioch.
13. 15:36 Who: Paul; To: Barnabas.
14. 15:38,37 Because he (John, also called Mark) had deserted them in Pamphylia and
had not continued with them in the work.
15. 15:39,36 Paul and Barnabas (they).
Acts 16
1. 16:3 Because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his
(Timothy's) father was a Greek.
2. 16:5,6,4 As Paul and his companions (they) traveled from town to town, they
delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the
people to obey.
3. 16:8,7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but
the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
4. 16:9-10 Who: a man of Macedonia; To: Paul; What happened: after Paul had seen
the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had
called us to preach the gospel to them.
5. 16:15,14 Who: Lydia; When: when she and the members of her household were
baptized; Result: she persuaded us.
6. 16:16 A slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future.
7. 16:18,16-17 Who: Paul; To: the spirit in the slave girl; In response to: She
followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most
High God, who are telling you the way to be saved". She kept this up for many
days and Paul became troubled.
8. 16:19 When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money
was gone.
9. 16:23,22 Paul and Silas (they).
10. 16:26,25 Suddenly about midnight, when Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns to God.
11. 16:30,29,31 Who: the jailer; To: Paul and Silas; Reply: "Believe in the Lord
Jesus, and you will be saved -- you and your household".
12. 16:33,29 At that hour of the night, immediately after he washed Paul's and
Silas' (their) wounds.
13. 16:34 Because he had come to believe in God -- he and his whole family.
14. 16:37-39 Who: Paul; To: the officers; What happened: They reported this to the
magistrates. When they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens they were
alarmed. They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting
them to leave the city.
15. 16:40 To Lydia's house.
Acts 17
1. 17:2-3 Explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the
dead.
2. 17:5 The Jews were jealous.
3. 17:7 By saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.
4. 17:11 They received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures
every day to see if what Paul said was true.
5. 17:13 When they learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea.