1. What is one of the prime factors that leads up to Shaul’s violent campaign against the Messianic community, and what evidence of it do we see here in Acts 8?
2. What location was Shaul’s campaign primarily operating, and as a result how did it affect the Messianic community’s migration?
3. Who were the first “outsiders” to receive the Gospel message, and who was responsible for it and how was it a bridge to a later Apostle who would reach even greater multitudes of “Gentiles”?
4. Who were the Samaritans and how were they related to the Jews?
5. Who was Simon, what is significant of his title: “The Great Power of God”?
6. How did the Spiritual authority in Jerusalem respond to Phillip’s ministry in Samaria, and what does this say about connection between the 2 baptisms that are available to all believers?
7. Is it only the right of “Apostles” to lay hands to impart the Ruach, why couldn’t Phillip or other believers do this, and what is the reason why only Peter & John could do it?
8. What was the reason Simon’s request was “inappropriate”?
9. Why was Simon’s sin so grievous and did he or did he not truly repent?
10. What is significant about the “road” Phillip was told to go on, what do we know about it, and what water was the Eunuch baptized in?
11. Who was this Eunuch, what do we know about him, and what is the connection he has to ancient Cush? (give Biblical references)
12. What are the 2 ways in which Phillip was directed to do things by God?
13. What is significant about the passage the Eunuch was reading?
14. How is Phillip’s supernatural earthly transportation similar to other accounts in the Scriptures (give citations) and what was the city he “found himself in”, what do we know about it?
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