Acts 12 Bible Study Questions
Questions for Acts chapter 12 Bible study
Questions for Acts 12 Bible Study
Acts 12:1-3 Bible Study Questions
Who is "Herod the king" (Acts 12:1)?
When was "that time" (Acts 12:1) and why did he kill James?
Who was "James" (Acts 12:2)?
Why did Herod Agrippa I proceed to "seize Peter also" (Acts 12:3)?
Why didn't he kill Peter upon his arrest?
What is the Days of Unleavened Bread (see Exodus 12)?
Why was it called the "Days" (Acts 12:3) of Unleavened Bread?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts12.htm
Acts 12:4-12 Bible Study Questions
What is meant by "four squads of soldiers" (Acts 12:4)?
Why did Herod do that?
How many obstacles stood between Peter and freedom?
How stealthy was the "angel of the Lord" (Acts 12:7)?
Then why didn't the soldiers guarding Peter wake up?
How rushed was this prison break?
What did Peter think was happening to him?
Did God's miraculous guidance of Peter end outside the prison gate?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts12-peter-in-prison.htm
Acts 12:13-18 Bible Study Questions
Why did Rhoda not open the gate?
What errors did those inside the house make?
What do you call Acts 12:18?
What did the Lord opening the eyes of the "soldiers" to His miracle the next "day" (Acts 12:18) achieve?
What must have been the demeanor of those in the house when they were "praying" (Acts 12:12), and when they saw Peter?
Who is the "James" (Acts 12:17) Peter told them to inform?
Why did God save Peter but let the other James get murdered?
Should true Christians fear death?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts12-rhoda.htm
Acts 12:19 Bible Study Questions
Is "Herod" (Acts 12:18) the Edomite king who tried to kill Jesus after His birth?
Why did Agrippa have the guards "put to death" (Acts 12:19)?
Why did Agrippa then go "down from Judea to Caesarea" (Acts 12:19) and stay there?
Who ruled over whom in Israel at this time?
Who are Edomites (see Genesis 36)?
How did the Edomites come to rule over the Jews?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts12-herod-edomite.htm
Acts 12:20-25 Bible Study Questions
Who are the people of Tyre and Sidon (see Judges 10 and 1 Kings 16)?
Where are Tyre and Sidon located?
Why did the people from Tyre and Sidon shout, "The voice of a god and not of a man" (Acts 12:22)?
Who struck Herod and why?
Is the strike what killed Herod?
Given that this happened to a king, isn't there any corroboration from secular sources?
What was the result of the persecution of the church?
What was Barnabas and Saul's ministry in Jerusalem, and to where did they return?
Whom did Barnabas and Saul/Paul take with them from Jerusalem?