Questions 

1. What impression had Paul to get acquainted with Athens?

2. At the Areopagus in Athens, Paul found an altar with this inscription was curious. What was this inscription? And this fact has raised the idea in the mind of the Apostle of the Gentiles?

3. In Ephesus, Paul baptized a group of disciples. As the apostle proceeded to baptize them?

4. Paul made many cures?

5. Why the goldsmith Demetrius and his colleagues were angry with the preaching of Paul?  

Text for reading 

33. Paul talks about freely in the synagogue of Ephesus - In Ephesus, Paul stood on the synagogue and for three months spoke freely, talking and trying to convince his listeners about the Kingdom of God. As, however, they also showed some hardened in their unbelief, the doctrine came to cursing in the presence of people, he turned away from them and started talking, in particular, with the disciples, every day, in the auditorium of Tyrannus. This continued for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews and Greeks, there could hear the word of the Lord. (Acts 19:8 to 19:10.) 

34. A bad spirit hurts and put the exorcists to run - once some Jews, who were itinerant exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus on the possessed, saying, "I exorcise you by Jesus whom Paul is advertising." Those who did this were the seven children of a certain Ceva, one of the high priests of the Jews. However, the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know and Paul I know: but who are ye?" And the man who was possessed fell upon them, overcame them and treated them with such violence, injuries and naked, had fled from that house. The fact was disclosed between the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear gripped them all. The name of the Lord Jesus has become, well, glorious. Many of those who professed faith would confess and reveal their superstitious practices, and many who were given the magic collected their books and burned them for all to see. The value of the books burned was estimated at fifty thousand pieces of silver. (Acts, 19:13 to 19:20.) 

35. Paul raises a young man in Troas - After the uproar triggered by complaints the silversmith Demetrius, Paul took leave of his disciples and went to Macedonia, where he encouraged the faithful to numerous sermons and then on to Greece. Stayed there for three months and when I went to sail to Syria, the Jews will have prepared an ambush, which is why he decided to return through Macedonia, accompanied by many disciples, among them Timothy and Luke. In Troas, they took seven days and that there was an extraordinary event occurred over the life of the apostle. A young man named Eutychus, sitting on a window sill, and fell fast asleep on the third floor. With the fall, everyone said that the boy was dead. Paul, who made a presentation at the same time, down the street and embraced the young man said to everyone: "Do not be alarmed, because he is still alive." And indeed, the boy was alive, because hours later, his friends took him alive to his house. (Acts 20:1 to 20:12.)

Answers to questions 

1. What impression had Paul to get acquainted with Athens? 

Arriving in Athens, Paul was moved to see himself in that town, however, despite its fame in the arts was wholly given to idolatry. (Acts, 17:15 to 17:17.) 

2. At the Areopagus in Athens, Paul found an altar with this inscription was curious. What was this inscription? And this fact has raised the idea in the mind of the Apostle of the Gentiles?

On the altar above was written this phrase: THE UNKNOWN GOD. The Athenians, wondering what Paul said, had asked: Can we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? For strange things you bring to the ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. Paul said, Athenians, I see you all in a little superstitious because I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. This, then, that you worship, not knowing is what I unto you.

That said, he talked about God reminding them that He who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither is he served by human hands, for He Himself gives all men life and breath and all things. (Acts, 17:18 to 17:31.)

3. In Ephesus, Paul baptized a group of disciples. As the apostle proceeded to baptize them?

First, Paul asked them, what were ye baptized? They said: "The baptism of John Paul then said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people who believed in what was to come after him, that is, Jesus Christ, and those who heard him were baptized in the name the Lord Jesus. That said, imposing Paulo hands, they came upon the Holy Spirit, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. (Acts 19:1 to 19:7.)

4. Paul made many cures?

Yes, God for Paul's hands-off did wonders, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases away from them and the evil spirits went out. (Acts 19:11 and 19:12.)

5. Why the goldsmith Demetrius and his colleagues were angry with the preaching of Paul?

Demetrius, who made silver shrines for Diana, brought great profit to the craftsmen. Paul, however, had convinced him away from that cult and a large crowd, saying they are not gods which are made with hands. There was, therefore, in their view, the danger of his profession to fall into disrepute. This, the reason for their indignation against the Apostle of the Gentiles. (Acts, 19:23 to 19:41.)