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Philip the Evangelist (Greek: Φίλιππος, Philippos) appears several times in the Acts of the Apostles. He was one of the Seven chosen to care for the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem ( Acts 6 ).
It was Philip who first introduced Nathanael (sometimes identified with Bartholomew) to Jesus. [2] According to Butler, Philip was among those attending the wedding at Cana. Of the four Gospels, Philip figures most prominently in the Gospel of John. [a] Jesus tests Philip (John 6:6) when he asks him how to feed the 5,000 people. [2]
Christianity came to the region in the mid 1st century with Paul the Apostle on his Third missionary journey [1] around 54AD, [2] when he stayed for three years in nearby Ephesus. Timothy, Onesimus and John [3] were all active in the area and The Christian community here was addressed by letter of John as it is one of the Seven churches of ...
1877 – James Chalmers goes to New Guinea; [293] Presbyterians Sheldon Jackson and missionary-widow Amanda McFarland arrive at Ft. Wrangel, Alaska where they join Philip McKay (né Clah) to start missionary work. McFarland was the first white woman in Alaska, and renowned as "Alaska's Courageous Missionary."
Map of Antiochia in Roman and early Byzantine times. This section opens the account of Paul's first missionary journey (Acts 13:1-14:28) which starts with a deliberate and prayerful step of the church in Antioch, a young congregation established by those who had been scattered from persecution in Jerusalem (Acts 11:20–26) and has grown into an active missionary church. [3]
Acts 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the final part of the second missionary journey of Paul, together with Silas and Timothy, and the beginning of the third missionary journey.
This section records the conclusion of the journey, tracing the traversed region along the land road until reaching Attalia, where they sailed to Seleucia, the sea port of Antioch in Syria (verses 24–26). The missionary church received a 'formal report' on the accomplished work (verses 26–27), especially the opening of a 'door of faith' for ...
Paul the Apostle visited Galatia in his missionary journeys, [17] and wrote to the Christians there in the Epistle to the Galatians. Although originally possessing a strong cultural identity , by the 2nd century AD, the Galatians had become assimilated ( Hellenization ) into the Hellenistic civilization of Anatolia . [ 18 ]