Acts 24 Study Guide
1) Why is the high priest so intent on bringing charges against Paul?
2) How did the Jews really feel about Felix as the Roman governor?
3) Which aspects of the accusations made against Paul are true and which are
false?
4) Why did Tertullus want Felix to examine Paul himself?
5) Why does Paul wait to speak until called upon given his standing as a Roman
citizen?
6) How could Felix verify the truth of Paul’s words?
7) Why did Paul really go to Jerusalem?
8) Why does Paul refer to Christianity as “The Way”, while his accusers call it
the Nazarene sect?
9) What makes something a sect?
10) Paul claims to have the same hope in the resurrection as his accusers but
just a chapter before this Luke tells us the Sadducees say there is no
resurrection so which is it?
11) What motivates you to try and keep a clear conscience before God and Man?
12) Why was Paul bringing a gift for the poor?
13) What difference did it make to Felix whether Paul was ceremonially clean?
14) Why should the Jews from the province of Asia have been at Paul’s trial?
15) Why does Paul frame the issue as being about his hope in the resurrection of
the dead?
16) How do you think Felix had become well acquainted with The Way?
17) Why does Felix defer judgment until Lysias came given he already has a
letter from Lysias?
18) Why does Felix keep Paul under guard?
19) Why does Felix allow Paul some freedom?
20) What friends helped take care of Paul’s needs?
21) Why did Felix and Drusilla send for Paul?
22) Why does Paul focus in on righteousness, self-control and the judgment to
come in presenting faith in Jesus?
23)Why was Felix afraid? Should we be afraid?
24) When is it convenient to consider Jesus?
25) Why does Felix think Paul would offer him a bribe?
26) Why doesn’t Paul offer a bribe?
27) What do you think Paul did during is imprisonment in Caesarea?
28) Why did Felix want to grant a favor to the Jews given his wife may have been
a believer?