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11 articles found for “Aquila”

• Priscilla and Aquila

  Priscilla (Prisca) and Aquila were a Jewish Christian married couple in the New Testament who worked as tentmakers alongside Paul and opened their home as a meeting place for the church.

• Acts 18

  In Acts 18, Paul meets Priscilla and Aquila in Corinth, stays there a year and six months teaching, returns to Antioch, and then sets out again. The chapter closes with Apollos, who has come to Ephesus, learning the way of God more perfectly from Priscilla and Aquila.

• Romans 16:1–7

  In this passage near the close of Romans, Paul commends Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, and sends greetings to Prisca and Aquila, Junia, and others. It is frequently cited as evidence of women's roles in the early church, and interpretations of Phoebe's office and of Junia are points of contention in the debate over the ordination of women.

• Pontus

  Pontus was a region in northern Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea. In the New Testament it appears in the Pentecost narrative, as the birthplace of Aquila, and as one of the regions addressed in 1 Peter.

• Ephesus

  Ephesus was a Roman-era port city on the western coast of Asia Minor. Paul stayed there for about three years preaching the gospel, and the city was the destination of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the home of the first of the seven churches of Revelation.

• Corinth

  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.

• Cenchreae

  Cenchreae was the eastern port of Corinth in New Testament times. Paul had his hair cut there because of a vow (Acts 18:18), and it was home to the church that Phoebe served (Romans 16:1).

• Apollos

  Apollos was a first-century Christian teacher who appears in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament. A Jew from Alexandria, he was eloquent and well versed in the Scriptures, and he ministered in Ephesus and Corinth.

• Rome

  Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire in the New Testament era and appears in Acts, Romans, and other books. Paul wrote a letter to the believers there and later went to the city as a prisoner, where he preached the gospel.

• Titius Justus

  Titius Justus was a Corinthian mentioned in Acts 18:7, a Gentile described as one who "worshipped God." His house, which stood next to the synagogue, became the place where Paul taught after leaving the synagogue.

• Thomas Aquinas

  Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and the leading theologian of medieval Scholasticism. He wrote the Summa Theologiae and is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and Doctor of the Church.