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Acts 17:15

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But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

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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 stops on Paul’s earlier route to Thessalonica; Berea, also in Macedonia, was where

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Acts 17:15 mentions Amphipolis, Apollonia, Areopagus, Athens, Berea and Thessalonica.

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

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