Chavy Chase Presbyterian Church

Lay Academy

The Bible in Context

Acts 4  "Before the Sanhedrin"

October 14, 2007, 9:30 a.m.

 

The answers may be multiple or "none of the above"

 

1.     The Sadducees were disturbed by Peter’s preaching of :

            a.         atonement

            b.         sanctification

            c.         the incarnation

            d.         the resurrection

 

 

2.    (Advanced)  Luke names Annas as high priest.  However, according to the Romans, the high priest was:

            a.         Theophilus

            b.         Nicodemus

            c.         Alexander

            d.         Caiaphas

 

3.    Peter compares Jesus to:

            a.         a lamb

            b.         a lion

            c.         a ladder

            d.         a building stone

 

 

4.    Peter and John are described as:

            a.         fanatics

            b.         insurgents

            c.         intellectuals

            d.         illiterates

 

5.      The Sanhedrin ordered Peter and John to:

            a.         leave Jerusalem

            b.         stop preaching

            c.         renounce Jesus

            d.         be purified

 

 

6.      The man who had been healed was:

            a.         14

            b.         24

            c.         34

            d.         over 40

 

 

7.     Peter talks of a conspiracy of:

            a.         the High Priest and Gamaliel

            b.         Herod and Pontius Pilate

        c.             the garrison commander and the chief of the temple police

        d.             the Essenes and the Zealots

 

 

8.     After they had prayed --:

            a.         Jesus appeared

            b.         Tongues of fire appeared

            c.         a voice came from heaven

        d.             the building shook

 

 

9.     Christians who owned land --:

            a.         sold it

            b.         built churches on it

            c.         gave it to the poor

        d.             grew vineyards

 

 

10.    Barnabas means:

            a.         son of consolation

            b.         son of God

            c.         son of thunder

            d.         son of the Lord