TỊBỊYỌ 22

“Jehovah Dọụbara Kị Paa”

Jehovah dọụyọ mịẹmụyọ duonị, Paul Jerusalem amú mị

Duo boemi yọbị Acts 21:1-17

1-4. Tetuu kị duonị PauI Jerusalem amú mịnị a o, bá teeki timi ụ koru mịnị a o?

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“Cyprus Tụọ” Kị Duobụọ Mị (Acts 21:1-3)

5. Paul mọ wo ikieotubo mọ te ụwọụ kị duo yọụ Tyre amú ma o?

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6. (a) Tetuu kị duonị Paul mú Cyprus laa ifie mị bolouịmbẹlẹ ma o? (b) Jehovah baratụa ị́ pịrị bara iroromịnị yọmị te eti ka kị ị́ pịrịmịnị a o?

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“Omịnị Christtuuduo-otubo Dọụ Ẹrị Mị̇” (Acts 21:4-9)

7. Yọụpaa otubo mú Tyre laa mị amịnị teeki mịẹ ma o?

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8. Omịnị tebara ka Acts 21:4 gbaa egberi bọọ sụọtuunimi agbẹị emi a o?

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9, 10. (a) Paul Tyre bọọ emi bịna-otu bụụdọọnyebo naa mị, kaanghaba teeki wo ịkịọu bọọ sụọ ma o? (b) Beitịẹkiri mị biin kịmịama teyeama kị kẹrị iroro dẹịn mịnị a, anịa bịsẹ yemị tebara ka kị Jesus gbaa yebo mọ bẹbẹ paa emi a o?

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A brother impatiently checking his watch while in field service. His witnessing partner glances at him. — Following Jesus requires a self-sacrificing spirit

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11. Tyre bọọ timi Christtuuduo-otubo tebara ka kị Paul tarị wẹrị emi bara mịẹdịa ma o?

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12, 13. (a) Philip te biin fịrịama ka kị Jehovah karịmịnị yọ bọọ wẹnị ma o? (b) Philip tebara ka ebi mịẹdịaye a paa daụ-otu pịrị wẹrị emi a o?

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14. Paul mú bịna-otubo dii yọmị te ebi kị mịẹpaamọ ma o, omịnị bá tebara ka kị a dimịẹ a paa emi a o?

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CAESAREA—ROMAN PROVINCIAL CAPITAL OF JUDEA

During the period covered by Acts, Caesarea was the provincial capital of the Roman province of Judea, the seat of its governor and the headquarters of its military contingent. Herod the Great built the city and named it in honor of Caesar Augustus. Caesarea contained all the elements common to pagan Hellenistic cities of the day—a temple dedicated to the “divine” Caesar, a theater, a hippodrome, and an amphitheater. The population was predominantly Gentile.

Caesarea was a fortified port city. Herod’s ambition was that his new harbor complex called Sebastos (Greek for Augustus), equipped with a huge breakwater on a coast otherwise inhospitable to shipping, would rival Alexandria as the emporium of the eastern Mediterranean. Although it never surpassed Alexandria, Caesarea did achieve international importance because of its strategic position on major trade routes.

The evangelizer Philip preached the good news in Caesarea, and it seems that he raised his family there. (Acts 8:40; 21:8, 9) It was the city where the Roman centurion Cornelius was stationed and was the scene of his conversion.—Acts 10:1.

The apostle Paul visited Caesarea a number of times. Shortly after his conversion, when enemies plotted to kill him, the disciples hurried their new brother the 55 miles (90 km) from Jerusalem to Caesarea in order to send him off by boat to Tarsus. Paul passed through Caesarea’s port when heading for Jerusalem at the end of his second and his third missionary journeys. (Acts 9:28-30; 18:21, 22; 21:7, 8) He was held for two years in Herod’s palace in Caesarea. Paul there conversed with Felix, Festus, and Agrippa, and from there he finally sailed to Rome.—Acts 23:33-35; 24:27–25:4; 27:1.

COULD WOMEN BE CHRISTIAN MINISTERS?

What was the role of women in the first-century Christian congregation? Could women be ministers?

Jesus instructed his followers to preach the good news of the Kingdom and to make disciples. (Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 1:8) This commission to be ministers of the good news applies to all Christians, whether men, women, boys, or girls. That this is so can be seen from the prophecy found at Joel 2:28, 29, which the apostle Peter showed had a fulfillment at Pentecost 33 C.E.: “‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out some of my spirit on every sort of flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy . . . and even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out some of my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.’” (Acts 2:17, 18) As we have noted, the evangelizer Philip had four daughters who prophesied.—Acts 21:8, 9.

When it came to teaching within the congregation, however, God’s Word limited the appointment of Christian overseers and ministerial servants to men. (1 Tim. 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9) Paul, in fact, stated: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but she is to remain silent.”—1 Tim. 2:12.

“Fịị Kị Paa Kpọ . . . Ịmịnị Fịị Mịnị” (Acts 21:10-14)

15, 16. Agabus te egberi kị gbaa ma, wo gbaa egberi mị tebara ka kị ụ peitimi kịmịbo gbele ma o?

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17, 18. Paul tebara ka kị wo gbinipẹlẹ yọ mịẹdịa ma, bịna-otubo ba tebara kị mịẹ ma o?

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19. Paul paamọ yemị te yelaaye ka kị wó tolumọ ma o?

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Collage: Parents and a missionary couple. 1. The parents happily make a phone call. 2. The couple happily receive a phone call in their foreign assignment. — It is good to encourage self-sacrificing fellow believers

“Bịna-otubo Pọwẹị Bara Wó Kẹrịakị Mị” (Acts 21:15-17)

20, 21. Paul wo bịna-otubo mọ timi dọụtimi duonị teeki mịẹ ma, anịa Paul tetuu kị duonị bịsẹ bara mịẹ ma o?

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