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Mysia
[Bible]Mysia was a region in northwestern Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). In the New Testament it appears in Acts 16 as a region through which Paul and his companions passed on their way to Troas.
Assos
[Bible]Assos was a port city on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor. In Acts 20 it is the place where Paul, having walked from Troas, rejoined his companions and boarded ship.
Hadadrimmon
[Bible]Hadadrimmon is a place name that appears only once in the Bible, in Zechariah 12:11. It is said to have been located in the valley of Megiddo, and the great mourning that took place there serves as the point of comparison for the future mourning of Jerusalem.
Publius
[People]Publius is the "chief man" of the island of Melita (Malta) mentioned in Acts 28. He hosted the shipwrecked Paul and his companions for three days, and Paul healed his father through prayer and the laying on of hands.
Pyrrhus
[People]Pyrrhus was a man of Berea who is named in Acts 20:4 only as the father of Sopater, one of Paul's traveling companions. He appears once in Scripture, and nothing else about his life is recorded.
Bithynia
[Bible]Bithynia was a region in northwestern Asia Minor bordering the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. In Acts, it is the region the Holy Spirit prevented Paul and his companions from entering; in 1 Peter, it is one of the regions where the letter's recipients lived.
Samothrace
[Bible]Samothrace is an island in the northern Aegean Sea. It appears once in Scripture, in Acts 16:11, as the place where Paul and his companions stopped for a night while crossing from Troas to Macedonia.
Perga
[Bible]Perga was a city in the region of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor. In the Book of Acts it appears as the place where Mark left Paul's company during the first missionary journey and as a city where Paul and his companions preached the word on their return.
Samuel Rutherford
[People]Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–1661) was a seventeenth-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian. He attended the Westminster Assembly as a commissioner of the Church of Scotland and is known for his work of political theory, Lex, Rex, and for his collected letters.
Desmond Tutu
[People]Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) was a South African Anglican archbishop. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his opposition to apartheid, the policy of racial segregation, and served as chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Exodus 3
[Bible]Exodus 3 is the chapter in which God appears to Moses in the burning bush at Mount Horeb and calls him. God commissions him to bring Israel out of Egypt and reveals His name as "I AM THAT I AM" and "the LORD."
Numbers 27
[Bible]Numbers 27 recounts how the daughters of Zelophehad ask for their father's inheritance, giving rise to a law of inheritance for daughters, and how, after Moses is told of his coming death, Joshua is commissioned as his successor by the laying on of hands.
Judges 4
[Bible]Judges 4 recounts how, under the oppression of the Canaanite king Jabin and his army commander Sisera, the prophetess and judge Deborah commissions Barak to deliver Israel, and how Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, kills Sisera.
Society of Jesus
[History]The Society of Jesus is a Catholic religious order of men that began in 1534, when Ignatius of Loyola and his companions took vows in Paris. It received approval from Pope Paul III in 1540 and has placed particular emphasis on foreign missions and higher education.
1 Kings 19
[Bible]1 Kings 19 recounts how Elijah, after the contest on Mount Carmel, flees from Jezebel's threats, meets the LORD at Mount Horeb, receives a new commission, and calls Elisha as his successor.
Matthew 28
[Bible]The final chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. It records the resurrection of Jesus and the empty tomb, the chief priests' bribing of the guards, and the Great Commission given to the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee.
1 Corinthians 9
[Bible]In this chapter Paul affirms that as an apostle he has the right to receive support from the church but explains that he has not used that right, for the sake of the gospel. He then urges self-discipline, drawing a comparison with the self-control of runners in a race.
Sopater
[People]Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, was a man of Berea who is 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.
Pamphylia
[Bible]Pamphylia was a region on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). In the Book of Acts it appears in the list of nations at Pentecost, in the account of Paul's first missionary journey, and in the narrative of his voyage to Rome. It is known as the place where Mark left Paul and his companions.
Proverbs 13
[Bible]Proverbs 13 is a chapter in the collection of the proverbs of Solomon. Through contrasts between the righteous and the wicked, and between the wise and the foolish, it teaches about receptiveness to instruction, guarding one's speech, diligence, wealth, companionship, and the discipline of children.