NBST 520 Study Guide Weeks 1-3
Questions with complete solution
2026/2027
From memory, be able to write Acts 1:8, 4:12, and 20:24 in the English version of your choice. Please
avoid non-literal translations such as The Message or the Living Bible. Each verse will be a separate
question. You will also be asked to state the version/translation from which you have cited. - correct
answer ✔Acts 1:8 - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
4:12 - There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by
which we must be saved.
20:24 - But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God's grace.
While Luke was not an original disciple, he was a close companion of which apostle? - correct answer
✔Luke, the physician, has been identified as the author of both the Gospel and the book of Acts. He
was a close companion of Paul.
Acts must have been written from which city if it was written in the early 60s and Luke accompanied
Paul in his later years? - correct answer ✔A date in the 60s is most likely when one considers the
following chronological arguments:
- The writing ends abruptly without a record of Paul's death.
- Rome is presented as neutral to Christianity.
- Lack of mention of the Pauline Letters.
- Lack of mention of the Jewish war that culminated in the temple's destruction.
In addition to the possibility that the Theophilus mentioned in Luke and Acts was a Roman official,
Köstenberger, Kellum, and Quarles make what speculation about him? - correct answer ✔Most likely,
he was Luke's literary patron, in which case he would not only have paid the price of publication but may
have housed Luke during the book's production and made the manuscript available for copying
subsequent to its completion.
Questions with complete solution
2026/2027
From memory, be able to write Acts 1:8, 4:12, and 20:24 in the English version of your choice. Please
avoid non-literal translations such as The Message or the Living Bible. Each verse will be a separate
question. You will also be asked to state the version/translation from which you have cited. - correct
answer ✔Acts 1:8 - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
4:12 - There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by
which we must be saved.
20:24 - But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God's grace.
While Luke was not an original disciple, he was a close companion of which apostle? - correct answer
✔Luke, the physician, has been identified as the author of both the Gospel and the book of Acts. He
was a close companion of Paul.
Acts must have been written from which city if it was written in the early 60s and Luke accompanied
Paul in his later years? - correct answer ✔A date in the 60s is most likely when one considers the
following chronological arguments:
- The writing ends abruptly without a record of Paul's death.
- Rome is presented as neutral to Christianity.
- Lack of mention of the Pauline Letters.
- Lack of mention of the Jewish war that culminated in the temple's destruction.
In addition to the possibility that the Theophilus mentioned in Luke and Acts was a Roman official,
Köstenberger, Kellum, and Quarles make what speculation about him? - correct answer ✔Most likely,
he was Luke's literary patron, in which case he would not only have paid the price of publication but may
have housed Luke during the book's production and made the manuscript available for copying
subsequent to its completion.
