The Bible in a Year

New Testament

Acts 10 to Acts 17
Read this coming week:
Oct 3 Isa 15‐19, Ps 87, Acts 10 Oct 4 Isa 20‐22, Ps 88, Acts 11 Oct 5 Isa
23‐25, Ps 89:1‐29, Acts 12 Oct 6 Isa 26‐28, Ps 89:30‐52, Acts 13 Oct 7 Isa
29‐30, Ps 90, Acts 14 Oct 8 Isa 31‐33, Ps 91, Acts 15 Oct 9 Isa 34‐36, Ps
92, Acts 16 Oct 10 Isa 37‐38, Ps 93, Acts 17

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Acts 10 to 17. Answer the
following:
• How does Peter know it is ok to baptize Cornelius
and his family? (10)
• In what city where the followers of Jesus first
called “Christians”? (11)
• Who rescues Peter from prison? (12)
• Who is the false prophet/magician that Paul and
Barnabas encounter in Cyprus? (13)
• How are Paul and Barnabas received in Iconium?
(14)
• What is the decision of the Jerusalem council and
why is it important? (15)
 • The fact that the women are worshiping by the
river in Philippi might indicate the lack of what
kind of Jewish building? (16)
• What is notable about the Bereans? (17)
Barnabas
Barnabas is an interesting character in the New
Testament record. It appears that Barnabas had
originally been named “Joseph”, but had been
nicknamed or renamed himself “Barnabas” before or
after his conversion to Christianity. “Barnabas” seems
to be related to the Aramaic (a relative dialect to
Hebrew) name “Bar – Navia” meaning “Son of A
Prophet”, but Acts 4 indicates that it was understood as
“son of encouragement.”

Barnabas was a Jew by birth, a member of the tribe of

Levi, but was living in Cyprus (where there was a large
Jewish population). Barnabas seemed to have been a
land owner in Cyprus who sold his land and gave it as
an offering to the early church.

Somehow, Barnabas ended up in Antioch. It is possible

that his relocation to Antioch was in order to escape
persecution from the Pharisee, Saul, whom later
Barnabas sponsored commended to the Jerusalem
church skeptical of Saul’s conversion.

According to one church tradition, Barnabas was

martyred by Jews in Syria and Salamis who heard him
preaching in the synagogue. Tradition indicates that he
was still traveling with John Mark, who was the reason
that Barnabas and Paul had parted ways. John Mark,
according to this same tradition, was the person who
buried the sainted “son of encouragement”.
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