What two cities did Paul pass through on the way to Thessalonica?
What custom of his did he continue when he reached Thessalonica?
How many Sabbaths did he reason with them? What did he use to reason with them from?
What did he explain?
What type of people formed the largest group who were persuaded?
How were the unpersuaded Jews feeling?
What type of people did those Jews form their mob from?
Whose house did they attack? Why?
When they didn’t find Paul and Silas, what did they do? What statement did they make?
What accusation did they make against Paul and Silas?
What did they do before they let Jason go?
Where did the brethren send Paul and Silas that night?
Where did Paul and Silas go as soon as they arrived there?
What description was given of the Bereans? What two things did they do?
What was the result of these actions?
Who came from outside to stir up those crowds?
What did the brethren do then (like they did in Thessalonica?)
Who stayed behind?
Where did his companions bring Paul? What command was to be given to Silas and Timothy?

Thought Questions

What did Paul have to use when he reasoned with the Jews that he didn’t have when he reasoned with the Athenians? (Verse 2)
Think about how you would explain to someone how Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead. What Scripture texts would you use (from the Old Testament, like Paul had to use)?
Why do you think more devout Greeks were persuaded by Paul than Jews?
What do you think the other Jews were jealous of? What was their motive for trying to attack the apostles?
What was the meaning of their accusation, “Those who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” Have you been a part of turning the world upside down?
How has Christianity changed the world in your current society? Can you see non-Christians getting upset by the world “turned upside down” where you are? What are their reasons?
What made the Berean Jews more fair-minded than the others? Do you search the Scriptures daily to find out whether the things you are taught by your pastors and teachers are true?

My prayer is:
That the Lord would guide my study so that I might be able to reason with others regarding Christ from the Scriptures;
That, like the Bereans, I would be “fair-minded” and open to the truth of Christ, daily searching the scriptures to find out if what I’m hearing is true;
And that even the enemies of Christ would acknowledge that my work for God is “turning the world upside down.”