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Greece
Greece is a biblical place name referring to the land of present-day Greece and its people. The Old Testament, in books such as Daniel, uses it for a kingdom yet to arise. The New Testament uses it for a region where Paul preached the gospel and as a name representing the Gentiles.
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- AthensBible
Athens is a city in the Attica region of Greece that still bears the same name today. During his second missionary journey, the apostle Paul stayed there and preached on the Areopagus, as recorded in Acts 17.
- AchaiaBible
Achaia was a Roman province in southern Greece in New Testament times, with Corinth as its principal city. Paul preached the gospel in the region during his second missionary journey.
- CorinthBible
Corinth was a Roman-era port city on the isthmus connecting mainland Greece with the Peloponnese. Paul founded a church there and later wrote 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians to it.
- AreopagusBible
The Areopagus is a rocky hill in Athens, Greece, and also the name of the council that took its name from the hill. In Acts 17 it is the place where Paul addressed the philosophers of Athens.
- Alexander the GreatPeople
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) was a king of ancient Macedonia who overthrew the Persian Empire and built an empire stretching from Greece to the Indus River. The Greek language and culture spread by his conquests formed the backdrop of the intertestamental period and the New Testament era.
- CreteBible
Crete is a large island in the eastern Mediterranean, south of the Aegean Sea, and is the island of Crete in modern Greece. In the New Testament it appears as a place Paul sailed past while being taken to Rome and as the place where Titus ministered by appointing elders.
- Pilgrimage to the Holy LandChristian Life
A pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a journey made for religious purposes to places where biblical events occurred or to major sites in church history. In Korean Protestant churches, the term chiefly refers to group trips to biblical sites in Israel, Türkiye, Greece, and other countries.
- 2 CorinthiansBible
Second Corinthians is the eighth book of the New Testament and the second letter Paul sent to the church at Corinth. It addresses Paul's defense of his apostleship, comfort in suffering, and the collection to aid the church in Jerusalem. Its verse 13:13 (13:14 in many English Bibles) is used as the benediction in worship.
- GallioPeople
Gallio was the Roman proconsul of the province of Achaia. In Acts 18, when the Jews of Corinth brought charges against Paul, he declined to hear the case, regarding it as a matter of Jewish law.
- TrophimusPeople
Trophimus was a Gentile Christian from Ephesus who appears in Acts and 2 Timothy. He accompanied Paul on his final journey to Jerusalem, and a mistaken assumption about him led to Paul's arrest.
- SopaterPeople
Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, was a man of Berea mentioned once in Scripture, in Acts 20:4. Near the end of Paul's third missionary journey, he was among the companions who traveled with Paul from Macedonia toward Asia.
- 1 ThessaloniansBible
The thirteenth book of the New Testament, a letter from the apostle Paul to the church at Thessalonica in Macedonia. Many hold that it was the earliest of the Pauline Epistles to be written. It addresses the second coming of Christ and holy living.
- John XXIIIPeople
John XXIII (1881–1963) was the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church. During his pontificate he convoked the Second Vatican Council, and he is popularly known as "the Good Pope."
- Acts 20Bible
Acts 20 is the chapter in which Paul, having completed his third missionary journey and setting out for Jerusalem, restores to life the young man Eutychus, who had fallen to his death at Troas, and at Miletus delivers a farewell address to the elders of the church at Ephesus.
- EpaenetusPeople
Epaenetus was a Christian whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:5, calling him "my wellbeloved" and the "firstfruits" of Asia unto Christ.
- JuniaPeople
Junia was a member of the early church whom Paul greeted together with Andronicus in Romans 16:7. Interpreters disagree over whether the name is feminine and whether Junia was called an "apostle."
- ApellesPeople
Apelles was a believer in the church at Rome whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:10, describing him as "approved in Christ." He appears in only this one passage of Scripture.
- StachysPeople
Stachys was a Christian in Rome whom the apostle Paul greeted as "Stachys my beloved" in Romans 16. His name appears only once in the Bible.
- HerodionPeople
Herodion was a believer in the church at Rome whom the apostle Paul greeted as "my kinsman" in the closing greetings of Romans 16. He is mentioned in only this one verse of Scripture.