Q 01/05

At which festival, with Jews 'from every nation under heaven' in Jerusalem, did the Holy Spirit fill the disciples?

A) Passover

B) Tabernacles

C) Pentecost

D) Hanukkah

Answer · why

C) Pentecost

Pentecost was the morning some onlookers decided the disciples had 'had too much wine', and Peter's reply was that it was only nine o'clock. The sound...

Q 02/05

What, in Acts 2, 'separated and came to rest on each of' the disciples after a violent wind filled the house?

A) Tongues of fire

B) Doves of light

C) Crowns of gold

D) Drops of oil

Answer · why

A) Tongues of fire

Tongues of fire is the picture Acts gives, and at once the Galileans were speaking languages understood by Parthians, Medes, Egyptians, Cretans, Arabs...

Q 03/05

Who was chosen by lot over Joseph called Barsabbas to replace Judas among the Twelve, in Acts 1?

A) Barnabas

B) Procorus

C) Parmenas

D) Matthias

Answer · why

D) Matthias

Matthias won the lot before a group 'numbering about a hundred and twenty', the only qualification being to have been with Jesus from John's baptism t...

Q 04/05

Which field, where Acts says Judas 'fell headlong' and his body burst open, was bought with his reward for betrayal?

A) Gethsemane

B) Akeldama

C) Golgotha

D) Bethesda

Answer · why

B) Akeldama

Akeldama, 'Field of Blood', gets a different origin in Matthew, where Judas hangs himself and the priests buy the field with the returned silver as a ...

Q 05/05

Which wife in Acts 5 dropped dead at Peter's feet three hours after her husband, both having lied about a land sale?

A) Salome

B) Joanna

C) Sapphira

D) Susanna

Answer · why

C) Sapphira

Sapphira had 'full knowledge' that her husband Ananias kept back part of the money, and Peter told her the feet of the men who had just buried him wer...