God Helped Me to Testify to Small and Great Alike
Acts 26:1-32
Key Verse 26:22a “But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike.”
1. Who was King Agrippa and what did Paul know about him? (1-3; 26,27)
2. What did the Jews know about Paul’s background? (4-5) What was Paul’s hope and how was his present situation related to that hope? (6-8; cf. Acts 23:6)
3. When Paul lived as a strict and dedicated Jew, what had been his view of Jesus and his followers? To what lengths had he gone to eradicate Christianity? (9-11)
4. What had happened to change Paul? (12-15) What does it mean that he was “kicking against the goads”? What did the Risen Jesus command Paul to do? (16-18)
5. How did Paul respond to Jesus’ command? (19-20) What was Paul’s message and why is it important that it was rooted in the Scriptures? (21-23)
6. Why did Festus interrupt Paul? (24) What was his prayer for Agrippa and all those who were listening? (25-29)