• Relation between James and the Elders? 18.
• What James, and why go to him? See Gal. i. 19; ii. 12; Acts xv. 13; xii. 17.
• Why so minute an account? and how far back did it extend? 19, cf. Gal. ii. 2; Acts xv. 12.
• Were the gifts accepted? 17, 20, cf. Rom. xv. 30, 31.
• Position of the Jewish disciples as to the law and circumcision, 20, 21; 25.
• Purpose of the proposal? 24.
• What implied in Paul's acceptance?
• What had he taught concerning the circumcision? Acts xvi. 3; Gal. ii. 3; v. 1-4.
• Had baptism taken the place of circumcision?
• In what sense was Paul walking orderly and keeping the law? 24. See Rom. vii. 6; Gal. iii. 23-25; I. Cor. ix. 20, 21.
• Condition of the four Nazarites? [56] 26, 27, cf. Num. vi. 6-12.
• What was Paul's part of the service? 24, Num. vi. 11, 12.
• How could he take part in sin offerings? I. Cor. ix. 20.
• Would he have done it after the epistle to the Hebrews was written? See Heb. x. 8-18.

• What the seven days? 27, 26, cf. Num. vi. 9.
• What the motive of the Jews from Asia? 27, cf. 25; xx. 18, 19.
• The ground of their charges? 28, 29.
• Why was Trophimus with Paul? See xx. 4.
• Why drag Paul out of the temple? and what part of the temple? 30, 31.
• Meaning of "chief captain" of the band? 31.
• Why have Paul bound? 33.
• Why into the castle? and what castle? 34. Josephus, Wars, i, 5, 4.

• Why think Paul that Egyptian? 38. Cf. Jos. Ant. 20, 8, 6.
• Why address a Roman in Greek? 37.
• Why wish to speak, and why permitted? 39, 40, cf. 33, 34.
• How could he beckon when chained? 40, 33.
• Why now speak in Hebrew? 40. [57]

• Why the effect of speaking Hebrew? 2.
• Why tell of his blood, birthplace and education? 3.
• What was the standing of his teacher? 3, cf. v. 34.
• In what sense "brought up" in Jerusalem? 3.
• Where was he during the personal ministry of Jesus?
• Why describe his persecution of the church? 4, 5.
• Did any of the crowd already know these facts?

• In what sense did they hear not the voice? 9, cf. ix. 7; I. Cor. xiv. 2.
• What evidence here that Luke did not make this speech and put it in Paul's mouth?
• What the things appointed, and when appointed? 10, cf. Matt. xxviii. 16; Acts ii. 38.
• Cause of his blindness? 11.
• Why these incidents mentioned?
• Why state the character and standing of Ananias? 12.
• Give the whole speech of Ananias. 13-16; ix. 17.
• Meaning of "wash away" thy sins?
• What suggested this metaphor?

• When this vision? cf. ix. 28-30.
• Point in his answer to the Lord? 19.
• Why wish to remain when the Jews were [58] seeking his life?
• Purpose of this division?
• Plan of the whole speech?

• Why the people so enraged? 22.
• Why throw dust in the air? 23.
• Meaning of examine by scourging? 24.
• What the force of being a Roman? 25, 26.
• How was citizenship obtained by money? 28.
• How was Paul born a citizen? 28.
• What binding is meant? 29.

• Why was Paul the first to speak? 1.
• Had he a good conscience while persecuting the church?
• Why the command of Ananias? 1, 2.
• Why not know it was the high priest? 5.
• Where is it "written"? 5, Ex. xxii. 28.
• What had the Holy Spirit to do with Paul's remark? 3, cf. Matt. x. 19, 20.
• How was the hope of the resurrection the ground of his trouble? 6.
• Why the Pharisees so easily turned? 9.
• Why the Sadducees so exasperated? 10. [59]

• Why this particular encouragement? See xix. 21; Rom. xv. 22, 23; 30-32.

• Why the conspirators so desperate? 12.
• What the probability of their success? 15.
• Why Paul's nephew there, and how did he obtain the secret? 16.
• Why charge him to tell no man? 22.
• What now were Paul's prospects?

• Why so many men, and at night? 23.
• Why was governor at Cæsarea?
• What undue credit does Lysias claim? 27.
• What had he now learned about the case? 29.
• Where was Antipatris? 31.
• Why did the infantry return from this point? 32.
• Why ask of what province Paul was? 34.
• How did Herod have a palace there, and what Herod? 35. See Josephus, Ant. 15, 9, 6.
• Who was Felix, and when appointed? Ant. 20, 7, 1.
• Merits of the conduct of Lysias? [60]

• Why bring an orator? 1, 2.
• Bearing of his introduction? 2, 3, Ant. 20, 8, 5-7.
• What the general charge, and what the specifications? 5, 6.
• Why formal charges now, and none before?
• What testimony was presented? 9.

• Point in his introduction? 10.
• Bearing of the remark about twelve days? 11.
• How are they counted? Cf. xxi. 27; xxii. 30; xxiii. 12, 23, 32; xxiv. 1.
• What his answer to the charge of sedition? 12, 13.
• What to that of leading a sect? 14-16.
• What to that of profaning the temple? 17-19.
• Why mention his remark in the Sanhedrim? 20, 21.
• Plan of his speech?

• Why this decision? 22.
• Mode of confinement now ordered? 23. [61]

• Who Drusilla? See Jos. Ant. xviii. 5, 4; xx. 7, 1 and 2.
• Why wish to hear of the faith? 21.
• What part of the faith did Paul present, and why? 25.
• Why was Felix terrified?
• What meant by a convenient season? 25.
• Does such a season ever come?
• Why did he think that Paul could command money? 26, cf. 17.
• Why was it not given?
• Why was Paul not released at last? 27.
• Why was Festus sent to displace Felix. Ant. 20, 8, 9.

• Why the hostility unabated? 2, 3.
• In what sense unable to prove the charges? 7.
• What were they? 8, cf. xxiv. 5, 6.
• How did Paul interpret the proposal of Festus? 11, cf. 3.
• How could he foresee the danger?
• In what sense was he before Cæsar's judgment seat? 10.
• Who had the right of appeal to Cæsar, and what its effects? 12, cf. 21, 27; xxvi. 32.

• Who were Agrippa and Bernice? 13, Ant. xix. 9; xx. 7.
• Purpose of their visit?
• For "religion," 19, read, [62] demon-worship.
• Why did Festus think it a question of demon-worship?
• Why did Agrippa wish to hear Paul? 22.

• Why with "great pomp"? 23.
• Why all these present?
• Why "especially" before Agrippa? 26.
• His purpose in first mentioning the case? 27.

• His habitual gesture? 1; xiii. 16; xxi. 40.
• Why think himself happy? 2, 3, cf. xxiv. 10, and Agrippa's ancestry.

• Was he a stranger to his enemies? 4, 5.
• What the hope referred to? 6, 7, 8.
• How was this "the hope of the promise"? 6.
• To whom the question of 8 addressed, and why?
• Purpose of this division of the speech? Cf. Ant. 19, 7, 3.

• What vote did he cast? 10.
• Purpose of this division? Cf. A's ancestors. [63]

• Explain the several statements about his companions. 14; ix. 7; xxii. 9.
• What evidence here that Luke did not put this speech into Paul's mouth?
• How was Paul kicking against the goad? 14.
• Purpose of Jesus in appearing to him? 16-18.
• How could he open men's eyes? 18.
• Is baptism included in Paul's commission? 18, cf. I. Cor. i. 17; Acts ii. 38.
• Purpose of this division?

• How had God helped him since his arrest by the Jews? 21, 22; see xxi. 32; xxii. 23, 24; xxiii. 10; xxiv. 22; xxv. 9-11.
• What light to the people and the Gentiles? 23.
• Purpose of this division?

• Why did Festus think Paul mad? 24.
• How did the king know these things? 26.
• Why the direct appeal to Agrippa? 27.
• Point in Agrippa's answer? 28.

• Why retire so abruptly? 30.
• What was the common [64] decision, and why? 31.
• What was Agrippa's? 32.
• What could Festus now write to Cæsar?
• What prediction fulfilled in Paul's arraignment before these rulers? See Matt. x. 18.

• Meaning of Augustan band? 1.
• Where was Adramyttium? 2.
• What the coast of Asia? 2.
• How long had Luke been with Paul? 1, cf. xxi. 17-xxiv. 27.
• Why Aristarchus in the company? 2, cf. Col. iv. 10.

• Why need refreshing in one day? 3.
• From what direction was the wind? 4, 5.
• Why change ships? 6.
• Why the new ship so far east? 6.
• How make headway against a contrary wind? 7.
• What change in the course at Cnidus, and why? 7.
• Why difficult to hug the shore of Crete? 8.

• What fast, and what its connection with sailing? 9. [65]
• Who had control of the ship, and why? 11.
• What the advantage of the haven at Phoenix? 12.

• Direction of the Euraquilo? 14, 17.
• Meaning of "face the wind," and why was it impossible? 15.
• What securing of the boat, and what boat?
• What meant by undergirding? 17.
• What the Syrtis, and why feared? 17.
• Why throw overboard the freight and the tackling? 18, 19.
• Why the effect of not seeing sun or stars? 20.

• What injury and loss? 21, see 18, 19.
• How reconcile this with his previous prediction? 22, cf. 10.
• In what sense were all given to Paul? 24.
• How did this claim appear to the heathen sailors and soldiers?

• Were they in the sea now called Adria? 27.
• Why think they were near land? 27.
• Purpose in casting anchors, and why so many? 29.
• Why wish to abandon the ship? 30. [66]
• How could they be safer in the boat?
• Why would none of the rest be saved? 31.
• Consistency with Paul's prediction? Cf. 22, 24.

• Had they eaten absolutely nothing? 33.
• How was eating "for their safety"? 34.
• Why give formal thanks? 35.
• Why the number given here? 37.
• Why lighten the ship again? 38.

• Why wish to strike the beach? 39.
• What the bands of the rudders, and why loosed? 40.
• Why raise a sail? 40.
• Meaning of "place where two seas met"? 41.
• Did they reach the point aimed at?
• Why so anxious to save Paul? 42, 43.
• Why have to swim? 43, 44.

• How learn the name of the island? 1.
• What its present name, and for what is it noted?
• Why the people called "barbarians"? 2.
• Why their conclusions about Paul? 4, 6. [67]

• In what sense the chief man? 7.
• Extent of his hospitality? and its reward? 7, 8; xxvii. 37.
• Why the whole company so honored? 9, 10.
• Did Paul preach to the islanders?

• Who the "Twin Brothers"? and how the sign? 11.
• What and where was Syracuse? 12.
• Where Rhegium? and why make a circuit to it? 13.
• Was the second day's run long or short? 13.
• What the present condition of Puteoli?
• Why not land nearer Rome?
• Why permitted to tarry seven days? 14.
• How did the Roman brethren learn that Paul was coming? 15.
• Why so thankful?
• Why was Paul allowed to live by himself? 16, 30.
• How did the soldiers guard him? 16, 20.
• How often was the guard changed?

• Had he seen all of the Disciples? 17.
• Full purpose of [68] the interview?
• Is it true that the Romans had desired to set him at liberty? 18, 19, cf. xxiv. 26, 27; xxv. 9.
• Why had they not heard of him through his epistle?
• What means of communication had they with Judea? 21.
• Why wish to hear him for the reason given? 22.

• Course of the argument, and length of the discourse? 23.
• Why the quotation from Isaiah and the remark about the Gentiles? 25-28.

• Why so long in prison?
• Whence the money to pay rent?
• How could he get hearers?
• What indication here as to the date of Acts?

Evidence of this:
(1) Ephesians and Colossians were borne by Tychicus, Eph. vi. 21, 22; Col. iv. 7, 8.
(2) Philemon borne by Onesimus. 10-12.
(3) The two messengers traveled together. Col. iv. 9.
• Conclusion, all three written and forwarded at one time.
(4) Paul a prisoner at the time, [69] Eph. iii. 1; iv. 1; Col. iv. 18; Phil. i.
(5) His only imprisonments long enough for such writing those at Cæsarea and Rome. Not the former, for he was then going to Rome (xxiii. 11); and now he expects to visit Philemon when released, Phil. 22, cf. Col. iv. 9.

(1) Paul was solicitous for means of utterance and the necessary boldness, Eph. vi. 18-20; Col. iv. 2-4.
• Why should he have felt thus?
(2) He had converted Onesimus, sends him to his master, and promises to pay his debts, Phil. 10-19.
(3) Paul's companions and their salutations, Col. iv. 10-14; Phil. 23, 24.
• When the commandments concerning Mark? 10.
• When had he joined Paul?
• Which of these were Jews? 11.
• Why was Epaphras so concerned for them? 12, 13.
• Where are Colosse, Laodicea, and Hierapolis? 13.
• Of what nationality were Epaphras, Luke and Demas? 14.
(4) Paul's salutations, 15-18.
• Why a church in the house of Nymphas? 15.
• Where is the epistle to the Laodiceans?
• Who was [70] Archippus? 17.
• Why the salutation with his own hand? 18, cf. II. Thess. iii. 17.
• Why no salutations in Ephesians?

Evidence of this.
(1) Written while a prisoner at Rome, i. 12-14; iv. 22.
• How was the pretorian guard reached? i. 13, cf. Acts xxviii. 16.
• How Cæsar's household? iv. 22.
(2) Written after Ephesians and Colossians; for now a "door of utterance" is open. ib., cf. Eph. vi. 18-20; Col. iv. 3.

(1) Paul expects to be released and to visit Philippi, i. 23-25; ii. 24.
(2) A purpose to send Timothy and an estimate of him, ii. 20-24.
• How did the Philippians know so much of Timothy?
(3) Sickness of Epaphroditus, and his return to Philippi, ii. 25-30.
• What brought on the sickness, and how had the Philippians heard of it? 30, 26.
• Why did Paul not heal him?
• Who carried this epistle? 28.
• What does Paul say of their gift and of them? 30; iv. 10-20.
• Was he in want when the gift came? 11. [71]

Evidence of this:
(1) It was written in Italy, xiii. 24.
(2) The writer under restraint, but sure of release, xiii. 18, 19; 23.
(3) The writer intimately associated with Timothy, xiii. 23.
(4) These facts indicate Paul as the author, and the close of his imprisonment as the date.
• What the main purpose of this epistle?
• If Paul's, why his name not given?

(1) No connected chronology in the text.
(2) By comparison with Roman history, two dates are ascertained.
      1. Herod Agrippa's death, A. D. 44.
      2. Accession of Festus, A. D. 60. See Conybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles of Paul.
(3) These two dates connect with detached figures in Acts and Paul's Epistles.

(1) Paul sailed for Rome, fall of 60, xxvii. 9.
(2) Winter of 60-61 spent in Melita, xxviii. 11.
(3) Spring of 61 he arrived in Rome, xxviii. 11-16.
(4) In Roman prison, 61-63. xxviii. 30, 31.
(5) Wrote Eph., Col., Phil., in 61; [72] Philip., in 62; Heb., in 63. See notes under "Prison Labors in Rome," Part IV, Section IV.

(1) The arrest in Jerusalem, Pentecost, 58. xxiv. 27; xx. 16.
(2) At Philippi on the way to Jerusalem, Passover, 58. xx. 6.
(3) Previous winter, 57-58, spent in Corinth, xx. 3; I. Cor. xvi. 6. Date of Rom. and Gal. See notes.
(4) Previous summer, 57, spent in Macedonia, xx. 1, 2, 3. Date of II. Cor.
(5) Previous spring, 57; close of labors at Ephesus, xx. 1; I. Cor. xvi. 6-8. --Date of I. Cor.
(6) Beginning of labors in Ephesus, 54. xx. 31.
(7) Beginning of third tour, 53? xviii. 22, 23; xix. 1.
(8) End of second tour, 53? xviii. 22, 23.
(9) Arrival in Corinth 18 months previous, early in 52. xviii. 11, 18. Date of I. and II. Thess.
(10) Beginning of second tour, 50? xv. 40-xviii. 1. The conjecture depends on the extent of the region traversed in this tour, and the labors in it indicated.
(11) The conference in Jerusalem, 50. xv. 30, 36.
(12) Conversion of Saul, and [73] death of Stephen, 36. viii. 1; ix. 1; Gal. ii. 1. This two years after the death of Jesus in 34.

(1) His first visit to Jerusalem, and departure to Tarsus, 39. Acts ix. 26, 30; Gal. i. 18.
• Jerusalem Church now restored.
• Philip's labors, viii. 4-40, in this interval, as appears from their position in the narrative.
(2) Baptism of Gentiles in Cæsarea, 41? ix. 30-43; x. 1-6.
(3) Paul brought to Antioch by Barnabas one year before the death of Herod; therefore in 43. xi. 26, 30; xii. 23-25. Church in Antioch founded few months earlier. xi. 19-25. Paul's preaching in Syria and Cilicia (Gal. i. 21-23) in the interval of 39 to 43. See (1), and (3).
(4) Almsgiving trip from Antioch to Judea, 44. xi. 29, 30; xii. 23-25.
(5) Beginning of first tour, spring of 45? xii. 25; xiii. 1.
(6) End of same, "no little time" before the conference in Jerusalem, therefore in 48 or 49: duration of the tour, about four years, xiv. 28; xv. 1, 2. [74]

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