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Lesson 40
Acts 25-26
Acts 25:1 Now when Festus had come to the province, after three days he
went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
Julius Caesar
1.
Was a military and political leader in Rome who rose in power
and became a dictator over all of Rome. He played a critical
role in the transformation of Rome from a ________________
to an _________________
2.
He was ________________________ in an unsuccessful
attempt to restore Rome to back to a republic
3.
Julius was posthumously recognized by the Senate as a
___________________of the Roman State
Caesar Augustus (Octavius)
4.
Julius Caesar was a great-uncle to Octavius who was adopted
posthumously “Gaius Julius Caesar” and the honorific title
_____________________ (“the revered one”, “majestic”,
“venerable”) was later added by the Roman Senate.
5.
Caesar Augustus became the first Roman _________________
who was reigning during the birth of Christ.
6.
He promoted himself as “Divi Filius”or “_________________”
because Julius had been recognized as divinity
7.
The family name _____________________ eventually
morphed into an imperial title
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Roman Control over Palestine
8.
Palestine was troubled with Civil war between two brothers
and two religious sects and in 63 AD Rome sent one of their
greatest generals and statesmen, Pompey, to intervene. After
a three month battle, Rome took control of Palestine and
appointed a man named _____________________ who
became Rome’s puppet ruler of over Palestine.
9.
Pompey who was one of three men who shared power over
Rome was killed in battle over a leadership struggle with a man
named _____________________________
10.
Antipater convinced Julius of his loyalty to him and was
allowed to rule ___________________. Julius was very lenient
toward to the Jews and allowed them religious freedom,
setting a precedent for the delicate management of oftentimes
unruly Jews who were now occupied by Rome.
11.
A year after Julius Caesar came to power, Antipater died and
his son _______________ became procurator of Palestine.
Herod the Great
12.
Herod was a Roman procurator (governor) of Palestine for
three years when Julius Caesar was _____________________
13.
Julius’ assassination resulted in a power struggle between
three men, Cassius, Antony, and ____________________
14.
In the seventh year of Herod’s rule, a man by the name of
_______________________ (son of former high priest and
king, Aristobulus II, prior to Roman occupation) took
advantage of the power struggle going on in Rome between
Antony and Octavian (Cassius was already out of the picture)
and Antigonus recaptured Jerusalem in 40 AD and ruled as self
proclaimed King and High Priest for 3 years until his defeat.
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15.
Herod fled to Rome and with the help of ________________ ,
a Roman army recaptured Jerusalem in 37 AD.
16.
Antony bestowed upon Herod the title of “King of the Jews”
which began the _____________________________________
17.
Herod was an Idumaean. The Idumaean’s (Edomites of the
Bible) were conquered by ______________________________
John Hyrcanus in 140-130 AD and forced to convert or leave.
Herod was a descendant of a “converted” Idumaean family.

Herod died in 4 BC shortly after the birth of Christ. He was 70
years old.
Herod’s Kingdom Divided

Herod was such a wicked and disliked ruler that after his death
the Jews pleaded with Augustus to appoint someone unlike
him.
18.
Augustus chose to divide the Kingdom into parts and put
_____________________________ in the positions.
Herod Archelaus

Was given the area of Judea, Samaria, and northern Idumaea.
19.
This was the Herod who was reigning when Joseph and Mary
returned to Palestine from ______________ and therefore did
not settle in Bethlehem but in Nazareth
20.
He was such a wicked ruler that the Jews sent a delegate to
Augustus asking for his removal. Archelaus was banished by
Augustus and replaced by a ___________________________
to govern the area.
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21.
Three of those prefects/procurators are mentioned in the
Bible. _________________________________________
Herod Antipas

Was given the area of Galilee and Peraea
22.
This is the Herod in the Bible who arrested ________________
and had him beheaded. Jesus was sent to Herod Antipas by
Pilate and then sent back to Pilate.

He was banished by the Emperor Caligula through the
influence of Herod Antipas’ nephew Agrippa 1
Herod II (Herod Philip I)

Tetrarch of Territories East of the Jordan (Bantanaea)
23.
His former wife _____________________ divorced him and
married his brother Antipas

Had lived in Rome with Herodias as a private citizen
“Herodias took upon her to confound the laws of our country, and
divorced herself from her husband while he was alive, and was
married to Herod Antipas” ~Josephus
Herod Philip II (Philip the Tetrarch, over Ituraea and Trachonitis)
“Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his
brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and
Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene.” Luke 3:1

Ituraea and Trachonitis were two provinces of Syria
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24.
Philip II married __________________ who was his niece. She
was the daughter of his brother Philip 1 and Herodius.
Herod Agrippa I
25.
Was a __________________ of Herod the Great
26.
This is the Herod who had ___________ the apostle killed,
Peter imprisoned, and who died in Caesarea in Acts 12

His father, Aristobulus IV was put to death by Herod just
before his own death.
27.
Agrippa grew up in the imperial count of Rome. He was liked
by the emperor Tiberius and made friends with the future
emperor _____________________
28.
He later befriends the future emperor ___________________
and after being overheard speaking against Tiberius in favor of
Caligula he was imprisoned.

After Tiberius died, Caligula rose to power and set Agrippa
free.

Agrippa was made Tetrarch of Batanaea (formerly held by
Herod Philip I/Herod II)

Influenced Caligula to banish his uncle Herod Antipas from
Galilee and Peraea and the Tetrarchy was turned over to
Agrippa
29.
After Caligula was assassinated in 41 AD, Agrippa helped
____________________ rise to power as emperor. As a
reward, Agrippa was given the Tetrarchy of Judea and Samaria.
(replacing the position of Roman prefects)
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Herod Agrippa II

Was the son of Agrippa I and only 17 at the time of his father’s
death
30.
A Roman ___________________ (formerly held by prefects
like Pilate) was placed over the region
31.
Agrippa was eventually given the small Tetrarchy of Chalcis
(Syria) and oversight of ____________________ in Jerusalem

He appointed Ananias as the High Priest

He was the 7th and last king of the Herodian Dynasty

His sister Berenice was the former wife of her father’s Brother
“Herod of Chalcis” or “Herod V”

She was rumored to have had an incestuous relationship with
her brother Agrippa II
32.
His sister Drusilla divorced another man and married the
Roman governor ________________.

Agrippa II was eventually despised by the Jews and expelled he
and Berenice from Jerusalem in 66 AD

Agrippa joined forces with Titus in the siege of Jerusalem
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Notes for Acts 25
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Notes for Acts 26
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