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Priscilla [a] and Aquila [b] were a first-century Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament. Aquila is traditionally listed among the Seventy Disciples . They lived, worked, and traveled with the Apostle Paul , who described them as his "fellow workers in Christ Jesus" ( Romans 16:3 ).
Priscilla and her husband Aquila. She and her husband are mentioned six times in the Bible, as missionary partners with the Apostle Paul. They were also partners in the craft of tentmaking. The author of Acts states that they were refugees who came first to Corinth when the Emperor Claudius expelled all Jews from Rome.
Rome had a large Jewish population. The couple, Priscilla and Aquila, were tent makers from Pontus, whom Paul met in Corinth. They had lived in Rome until the emperor Claudius ordered all the Jews to leave the city. Suetonius mentions this as due to disturbances in the city between the Jews and the followers of "Christus". [1]
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He greets Priscilla, whose formal Latin name was (Prisca), Junia, Julia, and Nereus' sister. [83] When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, [84] he lists Priscilla first in 5 of the 7 times they are referred to by their couple name, suggesting to some scholars that she was the head of the family unit. [85]
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