Acts 17:1-26
Amphipolis
: a city located between Thessalonica and Philippi on the Strymon river
(40° 49´, 23° 50´)
Apollonia
: a city in Macedonia 48 km. from Amphipolis and 60 from Thessalonica (YC)
(40° 35´, 23° 21´)
Areopagus
: a hill of Athens west of the Acropolis where the city council used to meet before Paul's time
(37° 59´, 23° 44´)
Athenian
: inhabitant(s) of Athens.
(37° 59´, 23° 44´)
Athens
: a town which was the capital of Attica in Greece
(37° 59´, 23° 44´)
Beroea
: a town located in southern Macedonia
(40° 31´, 22° 12´)
Caesar
: a title held by Roman emperors
Epicureans
: followers of the philosophies of Epicurus
Gentile
: a non-Jewish person
(31° 46´, 35° 14´);
(31° 46´, 35° 14´)
Greek
: the language used by the people of Greece
(31° 46´, 35° 14´);
(31° 46´, 35° 14´)
Jason
: a Christian man in Thessalonica to whom Paul sent greetings
Jewish
: the people descended from Israel
(31° 46´, 35° 14´);
(31° 46´, 35° 14´)
Jews
: the people descended from Israel
(31° 46´, 35° 14´);
(31° 46´, 35° 14´)
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
Stoic
: a sect of people
Thessalonica
: a town of Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf (Gulf of Salonika)
(40° 37´, 22° 55´)
Timothy
: a young man of Lystra who travelled with Paul and to whom two epistles were addressed