Last week we ended at verse 22 of Chapter 25 where Festus was explaining the case against Paul to King Agrippa. We pick up this week where Paul is brought before Agrippa, Bernice and Festus.

Acts Lesson 37 Study Questions

1.    When Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp: This was more than a _________ of evidence; it was an event. It was held in an auditorium, and all the commanders and the prominent men of the city were there. This was another tremendous ____________ for Paul.

2.    It seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him: Paul was so __________ that Festus could not actually describe or specify the ________ against him.

3.    . Then Agrippa said to Paul: Paul stood before the man whose great-grandfather had tried to kill ______ as a baby; his grandfather had John the Baptist _________; his father had martyred the first apostle, ________. 

4.    Now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers: Paul made it clear that in both his heart and mind, he remained a faithful ____. His trust in Jesus was an outgrowth of his trust in the hope of the _________ made by God and he argued that for this hope’s sake… I am accused by the Jews.

5.    If Paul was a member of the Sanhedrin, it also means that at that time he was _________, because it was required for all members of the Sanhedrin. Since as a Christian, he was single (1 Corinthians 7:7-9), it may mean that Paul’s wife either _____ or ________ him when he became a Christian.

6.    I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting: These words changed Paul’s world. He immediately understood that Jesus was _______, not dead. He understood that Jesus reigned in glory instead of being damned in shame. He realized that in persecuting the followers of Jesus he persecuted _______.

7.    For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness. Paul was commissioned to be a _________, which means he was to be a _________ of the things which he had seen, and of the things which Jesus would yet reveal to him.

8.    I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: Given the experience Paul just described, this was _________. No one should disobey the God who revealed _________ so powerfully. Paul made a strong case before Agrippa and all there as to why he preached and lived the way he did.

9.    For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me: Paul plainly states the truth of the case. It was only because he sought to bring the _______ of Jesus Christ to the _________ that the Jews seized him and tried to kill him. 

10.    Saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come: Paul also stated his unswerving commitment to the same ________, because that gospel was based solidly on the ________ of God (the prophets and Moses) not on the traditions or spiritual experiences of man.