Acts Chapter 17

What are the main points of this chapter?

• Preaching in Thessalonica (1-9)

• Preaching in Berea (10-14)

• Conversions at Philippi (15-34)

After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, where did Paul’s company arrive?

What was Paul’s custom when he found a synagogue in a city?

What was his purpose in visiting the synagogue?

What was the initial reaction to Paul’s teaching in the synagogue?

What did the Jews who were not persuaded do?

• Took some evil men from the market place and formed a mob

• Set the city in uproar, attacked the house of Jason looking for Paul and Silas

• Not finding Paul and Silas, drag Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city

What charges did they bring against Jason and those whom he received?

• These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

• These are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.

Troubled by such charges, what did the rulers of the city do?

What did the brethren do with Paul and Silas? What did they find there?

List two ways the Bereans were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica.

• They first received the word with all readiness

• They then searched the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul taught were so