Acts 1 Questions

You can find the answers to the questions on Acts by looking at the Questions and Answer page of Acts 1. Also there are 24 sermons on the first 13 Chapters of Acts in the sermon section.
Verse 1
Who is this book written to and why was it written?




Verse 2
What did Jesus do between the time He was resurrected and the time that he was taken up into heaven?



Verse 3
If Jesus was appearing to his disciples and teaching them, what does this prove? What is the implication for us?



Verse 4
a. What did Jesus command the disciples to do?



b. What was the promise that Jesus had told the disciples about that had come from the Father?




Verse 5
a. What is the origin of the word baptism? What was the purpose of John's baptism?




b. What would the meaning of being baptized with the Holy Spirit?





c. Are you immersed in the Holy Spirit?




Verse 6
a. What where the disciples thinking might happen at this time?




Verse 7
a. Can anyone know when God is going to re-establish the Kingdom of Israel?




b. Should we be trying to figure out when Jesus is coming back? What is more important?




c. What does this tell us about God? Mk 13:32




Verse 8
a. What does the Holy Spirit give us? What does this tell us about God?




b. Is there a choice whether we will be a witness or not?



c. How well did the 12 apostles do in their day as witnesses?



d. How are we doing today to fulfill this command?



e. Where is our Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and world?




f. What can we do about it?



Verse 9
What happened to Jesus after He told them that they were to be His witnesses?
Verse 10
a. What happened when they were watching Jesus go up into Heaven?




b. Who do you think these men were?



Verse 11
a. What did the men say?



b. To what do we have to look forward? What implications does this have for us?



Verse 12
a. What did the disciples do after Jesus left them?



b. What is a Sabbath's day's journey?




Verse 13
a. Where did the 11 apostles go in Jerusalem?




b. Who was there?




Verse 14
a. What did they do in the upper room? How long did they stay there presumably doing this?




b. Who joined them?




c. How might we apply this concept to our lives?




Verse 15
a. How many people were at the prayer meeting?




b. What do you think they were praying for? How well do we pray for those things?



Verse 16.
What was Peter's claim about what David had written in the Psalms?






Verse 17
a. What had Judas done with the money that he got from betraying Jesus? See also Matthew 27: 3 - 5




Verses 18 - 19
What do these verses say was done with the money that Judas received to betray Jesus? See Matthew 27: 6 - 10 also.




Verse 20
Where were the passages from that Peter quoted to initiate a replacement for Judas.




Verses 21 -22
a. What were the criteria Peter thought important to replace Judas?




b. What do these criteria tell us about people who followed Jesus?




Verse 23
a. What were the names of the men which they put forward?




b. Do we find these men anywhere in scripture or early church fathers?



Verses 24 - 26
a. How did they end up making the decision who was going to replace Judas?




b. Which of the two became the replacement for Judas?



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