Acts 16 Bible Study Questions
Questions for Acts chapter 16 Bible study
Questions for Acts 16 Bible Study
Acts 16:1-5 Bible Study Questions
Where are "Derbe and Lystra" (Acts 16:1)?
Who is "he" (Acts 16:1)?
How did Paul and Silas travel to Derbe and Lystra?
How old was "Timothy" (Acts 16:1)?
Why did Paul want Timothy "go on with him" (Acts 16:3)?
Are the children of Christian mothers born as Christians as some claim?
Which "decrees" (Acts 16:4) did they deliver to the "churches" (Acts 16:5) in the region?
How had Paul previously reacted to those who erroneously claimed that circumcision was necessary to become a Christian?
Why was Timothy "circumcised" (Acts 16:3) by Paul?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts16-chapter.htm
Acts 16:6-10 Bible Study Questions
Where are "Phrygia," "Galatia" (Acts 16:6), "Mysia," and "Bithynia" (Acts 16:7)?
From Mysia, in which direction did they try to go?
Who stopped them?
What else were they stopped from doing?
Where is "Macedonia" (Acts 16:9)?
So why did He forbid the Gospel being preached in Asia?
Why there first?
Who came to Mysia, and then "down to Troas" (Acts 16:8)?
Who "sought to go to Macedonia" (Acts 16:9) from Troas?
So, what happened?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts16-phrygia-bithynia-mysia.htm
Acts 16:11-15 Bible Study Questions
Where is "Samothrace" (Acts 16:11)?
Where are "Neapolis" (Acts 16:11) and "Philippi" (Acts 16:12)?
Why would "prayer" be "customarily made" at "riverside ... outside" (Acts 16:13) Philippi?
What is meant by "a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira" (Acts 16:14)?
What enabled Lydia "to heed the things spoken by Paul" (Acts 16:14)?
Is this still true today?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts16-samothrace-neapolis-philippi.htm
Acts 16:16-18 Bible Study Questions
What is a "spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16)?
What is a spirit of Python?
What was this spirit of Python/divination really?
Can a demonic spirit really have the power of divination?
What did the "slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16) cry out?
Was she right?
Why did Paul become "greatly annoyed" (Acts 16:18)?
How is she different from the psychics, witches and other who engage in fortune telling today?
What did God say about His people seeking advice from psychics, witches and fortune tellers (see Deuteronomy 18)?
What about things like daily horoscopes and fortune cookies?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts16-spirit-of-divination.htm
Acts 16:19-29 Bible Study Questions
Who weren't "seized" along with "Paul and Silas" (Acts 16:19)?
Why not?
What other possible reasons are there for them not having been seized along with Paul and Silas?
What three errors are found in the accusations against Paul and Silas?
What was the real reason for Paul and Silas getting "dragged into the marketplace" (Acts 16:19)?
Who are "the magistrates" (Acts 16:22)?
What should the magistrates have done?
What was the punishment?
Was this fair to Paul and Silas?
How did they react to being falsely accused, unjustly beaten and jailed?
Why (see Matthew 5)?
Why would they listen to Paul and Silas instead of telling to shut up for making noise at midnight?
How do you react when you are teased, mocked, insulted or persecuted for Christ?
Why would "the keeper of the prison" try to "kill himself" (Acts 16:27)?
Why did he run and fall "down trembling before Paul and Silas" (Acts 16:29)?
Which ones did he witness?
What would you expect him to have done at this point?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts16-paul-and-silas.htm
Acts 16:30-34 Bible Study Questions
What did the jailer ask Paul and Silas?
Was the jailer asking what he must do for that to happen in the physical realm?
Then what was the jailer asking?
Are you willing to risk physical death for the antidote to your everlasting problem?
According to Paul and Silas, what did the jailer have to do
How is that different today?
Believe what?
Did the jailer then lock Paul and Silas back in their prison cell?
Why did he do that?
Would you risk being killed to share the Gospel with your family?
What about being disowned, disliked or disrespected?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts16-what-must-i-do-to-be-saved.htm
Acts 16:35-40 Bible Study Questions
Where did Paul and Silas go before the magistrates' officers arrived the next day?
Who are "the magistrates" (Acts 16:35)?
Why were the magistrates "afraid" (Acts 16:38)?
Did Paul refuse to leave quietly out of pride?
About what may the magistrates have "pleaded" (Acts 16:39) with Paul and Silas?
How may Paul and Silas have responded?
After bringing Paul and Silas outside, why did the magistrates ask them to "depart from the city" (Acts 16:39)?
Did Paul and Silas heed the magistrates' request to leave the city?
Why does Luke write that "they ... departed" (Acts 16:40)?
When was the next visit?
Did Timothy stay with him?