Athens
: a town which was the capital of Attica in Greece
Corinth
: a town located on the narrow isthmus connecting the Greek mainland with the Peloponnesus Peninsula to the south
Jews
: the people descended from Israel
Macedonia
: a Roman province north of Greece which included 10 Roman colonies (IBD),citizens of the province of Macedonia
Paul
: a man from Tarsus who persecuted the church but became a missionary and writer of 13 Epistles
Silas
: a man who went with Peter and Paul on separate missionary journeys
Timothy
: a young man of Lystra who travelled with Paul and to whom two epistles were addressed