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Acts 17:1

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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

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Paul's Missionary JourneysThe routes of the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys across the Mediterranean world.
The Roman Empire of the New TestamentThe Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, the political world of the New Testament.

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Amphipolis and Apollonia were Macedonian towns on the Roman Via Egnatia, passed as Paul and Silas traveled to Thessalonica

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Acts 17:1 mentions Amphipolis, Apollonia, Areopagus, Athens, Berea and Thessalonica.

Amphipolis · Aurilios
Apollonia · Schuppi
Areopagus · ajbear
Athens · George E. Koronaios

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