Acts 23: Safety in Caesarea
What must one do to live with a clean conscience toward God?
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King James
Why do you think the high priest ordered men to slap Paul on the mouth?
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Why was it a violation of the Law to have Paul smitten?
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Under what circumstances should we refrain from speaking what we know to be true?
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King James
Why would Paul benefit from expressing his belief in the resurrection?
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The Pharisees got into a heated argument with the Sadducees, apparently because of Paul’s story that a spirit or angel had appeared to him. Do you think this encouraged some to consider the truth about the resurrected Christ? Why or why not?
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King James
Why was Paul caught in the middle of the argument and had to be taken back to the fortress for safety?
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King James
How much of his Damascus experience do you think Paul would have told the Sanhedrin?
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King James
In what ways might the Holy Spirit have helped Paul tell his story?
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King James
What kinds of feelings might Paul have had when the Lord told him he would take his message to Rome?
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King James
From what sect would the Jews have been who conspired to kill Paul?
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King James
Why might Temple leaders have supported the plot, even though it meant going against Roman authority?
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King James
What do you think the circumstances might have been in which Paul’s nephew heard about the plan?
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King James
How would his nephew be able to reach Paul while imprisoned?
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Why would a Roman officer choose to take Paul’s advice and take the nephew to see the captain?
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King James
Why wasn’t the Roman officer made aware of the nephew’s message, either by Paul or the captain?
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King James
How much detail about the plot would the nephew have given the captain? In what ways might his description have differed from what he told Paul?
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King James
Why might the captain not want others to know that he knew about the plot?
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King James
What would be the effect of a military force of 270 foot soldiers and horsemen leaving Jerusalem at night?
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King James
Why would Paul have been given a horse and not forced to walk among the 200 soldiers?
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Would spectators have known the mission of the soldiers? Why or why not?
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King James
Who would have carried the captain’s letter addressed to Governor Felix?
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King James
When do you think the captain informed Temple leaders of Paul’s transfer to Caesarea, where they could present their case in a Roman court?
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King James
Where in Antipatris might the military force have spent the remainder of the night?
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King James
Why did the foot soldiers return to Jerusalem instead of continuing the journey to Caesarea with the horsemen?
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King James
How might the captain’s letter have affected the governor’s view of Paul?
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Why would the governor have asked what province Paul was from?
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Since Herod was dead, who would be commanding Herod’s headquarters?