Acts 20 Bible Study Questions
Questions for Acts chapter 20 Bible study
Questions for Acts 20 Bible Study
Acts 20:1-8 Bible Study Questions
Which "uproar" (Acts 20:1) ceased?
Why did Paul go to "Macedonia" (Acts 20:1) and "Greece" (Acts 20:2)?
Where in "Greece" (Acts 20:2) did Paul go and how long did he stay?
How did Paul adapt his plans after learning that "the Jews plotted against him" (Acts 20:3)?
How many disciples sailed ahead to wait for Paul at Troas, located on the northwest coast of what is Turkey today?
Why so many?
Who was carrying the gift from the church in Corinth?
Where did Paul spend "the Days of Unleavened Bread" (Acts 20:6)?
Why does Acts 20:6 say, "we sailed"?
Why did the "disciples" (Acts 20:7) come together in Troas?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts20.htm
Acts 20:9-16 Bible Study Questions
Why did "Eutychus" (Acts 20:9) fall asleep?
Did the fall kill Eutychus or did the people mistakenly think that he had died?
Why does Luke's observation of Eutychus carry weight?
What happened after Paul went down, fell on Eutychus, and embraced him?
What did Paul do thereafter?
Where is "Assos" (Acts 20:13)?
Why did Paul tell the others to take the ship to Assos while he went "on foot" (Acts 20:13)?
Where are "Mitylene" (Acts 20:14), "Chios ... Samos ... Trogyllium ... Miletus" (Acts 20:15)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts20-eutychus.htm
Acts 20:17 Bible Study Questions
Why did Paul call "for the elders of the church at Ephesus" (Acts 20:17) to come to him in Miletus?
Who could be "elders of the church" (Acts 20:17)?
What is the difference between an "elder" (Acts 20:17) and a "bishop" (1 Timothy 3:2)?
Can someone who is unable to teach the Bible become an elder/bishop?
Can a greedy and/or violent person become an elder/bishop?
Can a woman become an elder/bishop?
What about Deborah in the Old Testament (see Judges 4)?
What about the pairs of young men in white shirts, black pants and black neckties who walk around wearing black "Elder" badges?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts20-elders.htm
Acts 20:18-25 Bible Study Questions
Where is "Asia" (Acts 20:18)?
How did a Roman province in Turkey end up being named "Asia"?
How did Paul teach "publicly" (Acts 20:20) in Ephesus?
Why would Paul shed "many tears ... by the plotting of the Jews" (Acts 20:19)?
Do you shed tears over the people of your nation who resist the Gospel?
What does Paul mean by, "you ... will see my face no more" (Acts 20:25)?
What did Paul know about "the things that will happen to" (Acts 20:22) him in Jerusalem?
How did Paul feel about that?
What is the "Gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24)?
Would you feel "joy" (Acts 20:24) if the "race" the Lord has given you took you into "chains and tribulations"?
What if your God-given "race" will cost you your "life" (Acts 20:24)?
How long is human life?
So what is the most important question in life?
Have you responded to that question?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts20-asia.htm
Acts 20:26-27 Bible Study Questions
What is "the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27)?
What does Paul imply by saying that he has "not shunned" declaring "the whole counsel of God"?
Why have others shunned it?
How do sinners typically react when their sins are preached against?
Then why did Paul continue to preach against sin?
Why does Paul say that he is "innocent of the blood of all men" (Acts 20:26) for not shunning to declare the whole counsel of God?
Regarding the "blood" of the unrepentant sinners around or in front of you, can you declare as Paul declared?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts20-whole-counsel-of-god.htm
Acts 20:28-38 Bible Study Questions
What is "church of God" (Acts 20:28)?
What qualifies such people as members of the church of God?
From which direction will "savage wolves" (Acts 20:29) attack the church of God?
Why does Paul tell them to "shepherd the church of God" (Acts 20:28)?
What will happen from within their own ranks?
How should they identify and defend against those who say such "perverse things" (Acts 20:30)?
In which 'book' today do we find "the word" of God's "grace"?
Was it proper for Paul to be "kissed" (Acts 20:37) by men?
Who was used more to spread the Gospel - apostle Paul or a tele-evangelist of today?
If Paul had pushed people to donate "silver or gold" (Acts 20:33), couldn't he have bought a private yacht and used it to reach more people, and hired bodyguards to protect him from persecution?
What did he do instead?
To provide only for his own "necessities" (Acts 20:34)?
At your church, does money flow from the pastor to the poor or from the poor to the pastor?
If both are poor, who at your church is hoarding God's money intended to provide for their necessities?