ORIGHO 22

“Urun ti Ọluwa [Jihova] Fẹ Owun Ra Wa Ṣe”

LU U

Pọl fẹ ṣe ayẹ-inọ Oriṣẹ, teri ẹrẹn o ka re Jerusalẹm

Ti a gba kuri iwe Uṣe 21:1-17

1-4. Nikọ Pọl teri ro gba re Jerusalẹm, kẹnrẹn nikọ re wa ṣi gbẹ ẹ ni uwẹrẹ?

Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

² Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

³ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

⁴ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

Bibọghọ Ifole Saiprọs (Uṣe 21:1-3)

5. Ọgọna bokọ wun Pọl biri aghan olukun ro gua gba ra to Taya?

⁵ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

6. (a) Ti Pọl gba ri Saiprọs, bokọ eyiwe te lẹghẹ ẹdọn ro gba ni? (b) Wo ma ro ni ubara biri Jihova te tin ẹ ẹyin biri gba gba iṣẹ gbẹ rẹ, nikọ re ka wa ni ẹmi rẹ?

⁶ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

“Ẹnẹ Ka Ri Aghan Bọbọ ti O Kpe Wun Ọrọnfọ ni Uwẹrẹ” (Uṣe 21:4-9)

7. Nikọ aghan ti o wi ugua we ṣe ti aghan gba to Taya gege?

⁷ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

8. Nikọ re ṣe alẹ urun ti o wi iwe Uṣe 21:4?

⁸ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

9, 10. (a) Ti aghan omere ti o wi Taya gba bẹ Pọl gin di o maa re Jerusalẹm, ukalẹ bokọ ti o farajẹ ẹrẹn owun o nemi ṣe gin Pọl tigbi? (b) Uro bokọ wun irẹye ni onuwe nẹ, kẹnrẹn bokọ eyiwe te ṣe ukanrin kuri ọfọ Jisọs?

⁹ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

Following Jesus requires a self-sacrificing spirit

¹⁰ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

11. Bokọ wun aghan olele Jisọs ti o wi Taya te mu wuwu ghan Pọl biri gba tin wun ẹyin?

¹¹ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

12, 13. (a) Ewe ti ẹnẹ nemi lele bokọ wun Filip mu ṣi? (b) Bokọ Filip te ṣe ọrọnrọn ewe gbẹ aghan Olele Kraist ti o ṣe Ọsa ni onuwe?

¹² Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

¹³ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

14. Nikọ re ṣi ti Pọl gba ra kin aghan omere ro ẹkẹnrẹn biri ebirẹn ni ujọ, kẹnrẹn bokọ ẹnẹ te nemi yẹn aghan ni onuwe?

¹⁴ Rọ ọ ni owun-aja Ighereje

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.