Acts 7 Bible Study Questions
Questions for Acts chapter 7 Bible study
Questions for Acts 7 Bible Study
Acts 7:1-3 Bible Study Questions
Who is the "high priest" (Acts 7:1)?
What did he mean by "Are these things so" (Acts 7:1)?
To whom did Stephen address his response?
Where is "Mesopotamia" (Acts 7:2)?
What does this mean about the ethnic origin of Abraham and the Jews of the Old Testament?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-stephen.htm
Acts 7:4 Bible Study Questions
Where is "Haran" (Acts 7:4)?
Who are "Chaldeans" (Acts 7:4)?
So what is Stephen claiming about Abraham's migration?
Is he right (see Genesis 11 and 12)?
Why didn't Terah also take Nahor, his other surviving son, to Haran?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-haran.htm
Acts 7:5-7 Bible Study Questions
What is the "it" that Stephen is referring to in Acts 7:5?
To what "foreign land" (Acts 7:6) and "nation to whom they will be in bondage" (Acts 7:7) was God referring?
When did God tell Abraham about the bondage of his descendants and His deliverance (see Genesis 15 and Exodus 4)?
With whom did Abraham seal this promise?
Did Abraham meet Jesus (see Genesis 15)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-gods-promise-to-abraham.htm
Acts 7:8-11 Bible Study Questions
Who are the "twelve patriarchs" (Acts 7:8)?
Is Stephen saying that only the twelve sons of Jacob are "patriarchs"?
If Abraham "begot" (Acts 7:8) Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs, does John 3:16's reference of Jesus being the "only begotten" son of God mean that Jesus came after God the Father or that God the Father fathered Jesus as Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered the twelve patriarchs?
When did God give Abraham "the covenant of circumcision" (Acts 7:8)?
Who are the "patriarchs" in Acts 7:9?
From what kinds of "troubles" (Acts 7:10) did God deliver Joseph?
Why did Pharaoh make Joseph "governor over Egypt" (Acts 7:10)?
Did Joseph's interpretation prove true?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-patriarchs.htm
Acts 7:12-15 Bible Study Questions
Who are the "fathers" (Acts 7:12) that Jacob sent to Egypt first, and eventually followed?
How many relatives did Joseph receive in Egypt?
What is written in Genesis 46?
What is written in Exodus 1?
What is written in Deuteronomy 10?
Which account is correct?
How is that number reconciled with what is written in Genesis 46?
How about Exodus 1:5, which states that the number of persons who came "out of the loins of" Jacob were seventy?
How about the "seventy-five people" in Acts 7:14?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-sons-of-jacob.htm
Acts 7:16 Bible Study Questions
What is Stephen referring to in Acts 7:16?
Where in Samaria was the city of Shechem located?
Who bought the place where the bones were buried - Abraham or Jacob (see Joshua 24)?
So which account is correct?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-shechem.htm
Acts 7:17-19 Bible Study Questions
How can the later king of Egypt not have known that Joseph was the one who saved his ancestor's reign?
Why did the later king deal "treacherously" (Acts 7:19) with the Hebrews in Egypt (see Exodus 1)?
Do you see any parallel today to the above phrase, "the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew"?
How did the king make the Hebrews "expose their babies, so that they might not live" (Acts 7:19)?
What lessons do the actions of the midwives hold for us today?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-king-of-egypt.htm
Acts 7:20-35 Bible Study Questions
How did Pharaoh's daughter take away Moses to bring up as her own?
What was Moses like at forty years of age?
Why did Moses flee at the Hebrew's words?
How did Moses react when God told him that He would send him to Egypt to deliver the Hebrews (see Exodus 4)?
Since Acts 7:22 says that he was "mighty in words," was Moses lying to God about being "slow of speech and slow of tongue"?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-moses.htm
Acts 7:36-41 Bible Study Questions
What wonders and signs were shown in Egypt (see Exodus 7 to 12)?
What wonders and signs were shown in the Red Sea (see Exodus 14)?
What wonders and signs were shown in the wilderness (see Exodus 15 to 17)?
When did Moses say "to the children of Israel, The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear" (Acts 7:37)?
Why are the first three uses of the second person pronoun singular ("you/your") in Deuteronomy 18:15 but plural ("you/your") in Acts 7:37?
How do we respond to the cults and religions that refer to this verse to legitimize their leader?
What "living oracles" (Acts 7:38) did Moses receive to give to Israel?
When did Israelites turn their hearts "back to Egypt" (Acts 7:39)?
What "calf" did they make in those days (see Exodus 32)?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-wonders-and-signs.htm
Acts 7:42-43 Bible Study Questions
What is "Moloch" (Acts 7:43)?
Why did mothers and fathers sacrifice their babies to Moloch?
What do too many pregnant women do today when they feel financially unprepared for motherhood or wish to have babies later?
What is "Remphan" (Acts 7:43)?
Where in the "book of the Prophets" are they written (see Amos 5)?
Why does Acts 7:43 and Amos 5:27 respectively say, "beyond Babylon" and "beyond Damascus"?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-moloch.htm
Acts 7:44-50 Bible Study Questions
What is the "tabernacle of witness in the wilderness" (Acts 7:44)?
How large was the tabernacle?
What did the Jews bring into the promised land?
What did King David want to do?
Who ended up building God's temple in Jerusalem?
Why did Stephen say what he said in Acts 7:49?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-tabernacle.htm
Acts 7:51-56 Bible Study Questions
What is stiff-necked (see Exodus 32 and 33, Deuteronomy 10)?
Is it true that the Jews persecuted the prophets (see Matthew 23)?
Whom else is Stephen saying they betrayed and murdered?
How did the Sanhedrin's react?
Who is the "Son of Man" (Acts 7:56)?
How did Jesus' react?
Answers: bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts7-stiff-necked.htm
Acts 7:57-60 Bible Study Questions
What didn't the Sanhedrin do?
Why did they lay down "their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul" (Acts 7:58)?
What became of Saul?
How did Stephen die?