Acts 8-10
Saul Threatens the Church
Philip in Samaria
Simon the Magus
The Conversion of Saul
Peter’s Healings
Cornelius and the First Gentile Christians
Acts 8:103
Saul Threatens the Church
Background on Saul:
• What was a Pharisee?
• Who was Gamaliel?
• Saul’s zeal for the Law
Article—the Three Jewish Parties (Homework)
Acts 8:4-40
Philip in Samaria
• Who were the Samaritans?
• (Simon the Magus)
• The Ethiopian Eunuch
Acts 8:9-24
Simon the Magus
• What were the “magi”? (The good, the bad,
and the ugly)
• What kind of “magus” was Simon?
• What happened to Simon the Magus?
(Sister’s brief article based on the Catholic
Encyclopedia-homework).
Acts 9:1-31
The Conversion of Saul
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The Road to Damascus
Ananias (the good guy)
Paul in Damascus
Paul in Jerusalem –with the apostles
Acts 9:32-43
Peter’s Healings
• Aeneas
• Dorcas (Tabitha)
Acts 10
The First Gentile Christians
• The vision of Cornelius
• Peter’s Vision—God declares all foods clean
• Peter and Cornelius