Place
Thessalonica
The Macedonian capital whose magistrates Luke calls politarchs — a title once cited as his error and since confirmed by dozens of inscriptions.
actsarchaeology
Where it is
- Region
- Macedonia
- Kind of place
- City
Thessalonica in Scripture
6 verses name it — all of them- Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
- Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
- Acts 17:13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Beroea also, they came thither likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.
- Acts 27:2And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail unto the places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
- Philippians 4:16for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.
- 2 Timothy 4:10for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.