These two shorter lessons are combined.
Review: Last
week we studied about Paul at Corinth. He stayed with Aquila and his wife
Priscilla. They were tent makers, like Paul. He worked for them and every week,
Paul taught in the synagogue.
Some people didn’t believe what Paul was teaching, but a lot of
other people did. They listened to Paul, believed and were baptized.
Lesson: Scripture is Acts 19:11-41. Have students look up and read Acts 19:11. We are told that Paul was doing unusual miracles through God.
Paul was doing miracles that
God wanted. People brought handkerchiefs and aprons of their sick
family and friends and their diseases were healed! (Acts 19:12)
Books burned: There were people that practiced magic at Ephesus.
They believed in Jesus and gathered their books together and burned them in front
of everyone! When they added up the cost of them, it was worth 50,000 pieces of
silver! (Acts 19:19)
With Paul and the Disciples teaching about Jesus, people were hearing the word of God and becoming Christians. (Acts 19:20) There was a
silversmith called Demetrius. He made silver shrines of Diana and made a lot of
money doing it.
Demetrius called the other
men together that had a similar occupation and told them that “You know we make
a lot of money in our trade.”
But there is a man called
Paul who is traveling through Asia, and he is telling people to quit worshipping
idols. He is telling people that idols are not gods because they are made by
hands. So not only is our work at stake,
but the temple of “the great goddess Diana” will be despised.
When they heard this, they were angry and shouted,
“Great is Diana!” The whole city was confused and upset. The crowd grabbed 2 of
Paul’s traveling companions and went into the theater.
When
Paul wanted to go in, the disciples wouldn’t let him. It was too dangerous. The
people were angry and hostile.
Most of the people that were
there, didn’t even know why they were there. There was so much confusion. They
just kept shouting “Great is Diana” for 2 hours.
The city clerk finally got the crowd quiet and told
the people that they know that Ephesus is the city that has the temple guarding
the goddess Diana and since this fact cannot be denied, think about it and
don’t act foolishly. Paul and these other men are not robbers, so if Demetrius
has a case against Paul, let him go to court. He told them that were in danger
of causing an uproar that couldn’t be accounted for.
When that uproar settled down, Paul left to go to Macedonia.
When I do this lesson, I have the parts in the picture above cut and let the kids glue to a 12x18 piece of construction paper. You can print these here:
You can find all the Acts worksheets here.
Click here to download the updated visuals.
This file contains all the visuals for Acts 19. All are not shown.
Click here to download the pictures to color.
(These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.)
This file contains all the visuals for Acts 19. All are not shown.
Click here to download the pictures to color.
(These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.)
Bible Verse: Acts 19:20
Used by permission.
I was so excited to find this lapbook of Paul...my preschool class has been learning about Paul and this is just what I needed to wrap up the lessons! Although they cannot read the answers, they will have a great time answering some of the questions you posed here! Keep up the great work!!!
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