ACTS 5
- How do the events of chapter 5 relate to the events of chapter 4? (5:1-42)
- What did Ananias and Sapphira do that was wrong? (5:1-4) What happened to them on ac-count of this? (5:5-10) What can we learn from this?
- What effect did this have on other people, both inside and outside of the church? (5:5, 11) Why do you think what happened to Ananias and Sapphira does not happen today? If it did, what do you think would be the effect on people?
- How are verses 12 and 15-16 an answer to the prayers of the believers in the early church in chapter 4? (5:12, 15-16) Is God answering our prayers like this today? Why is he, or is he not?
- Why did no one else dare join the Christians at this time who were meeting in Solomon's colonnade? (5:13) Nevertheless, did more people become Christians, or did the church stop growing? (5:14)
- How did the High Priest and his associates feel about all the miraculous signs, wonders, and healings that were taking place through the apostles? (5:17) What action did they take? (5:18) What action did God take concerning this, and what did he have his angel tell the apostles to do? (5:19-20) What did the apostles do? (5:21) Wwhat would you have done?
- When the temple guard went to arrest the apostles again, why did they not use force? (5:26) What does this tell us?
- What did the HighPpriest tell the apostles? (5:27-28) What was their response to him? (5:29-32) What can we learn for our own lives from what they said?
- What did the Sanhedrin want to do to the apostles at first? (5:33) How and by whom were they persuaded differently? (5:34-39) What can we learn from his advice for our own lives? What did the Sanhedrin actually do? (5:40) How did the apostles respond to this? (5:41-42) How do you think you would have responded?