Tag: hellenist

  • Asia – Let’s Not Go There – Acts 16

    The importance of this juncture in Paul’s journey, now with Silas and Timothy, cannot be overemphasized as these apostles are sent out beyond Asia into all the world of Euro-Asia. Asia – the BIG picture Growing up geographically-challenged (as my 5th grade teacher surely would have confirmed) in a small village far distant from Paul’s…

    Asia Europe Africa 21st c. view from Google Earth
  • Exhortation from the Jew of Jews Saulos Tarseus :שָׁאוּל

    Saul’s sermon in the synagogue of Antioch We must leave behind us any notion that Paul’s exhortation to the Jews in Antioch Pisidia would have much effect by proclaiming the Gospel as Paul had to the Roman ruler Sergius Paulos in Paphos Cypress or to the faithful ‘Christians’ of the church at Antioch in Syria.…

    Born: Saul of Tarsus, c. 5 AD, Tarsus, Cilicia, Roman Empire (in 21st-century Turkey) Died: c. 64/65 AD, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire