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Caesarea Philippi
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People(5+)
- PersonCorneliusA Roman centurion of the Italian band at Caesarea — devout, generous, praying, and uncircumcised. The Spirit fell on his household while Peter was still preaching, and the…
- PersonLydiaA seller of purple from Thyatira, worshipping at a riverside prayer meeting outside Philippi when the Lord opened her heart — the first named European convert, and the host of…
- PersonFelixRoman procurator of Judea who kept Paul in custody at Caesarea for two years, sent for him often hoping for a bribe, and trembled when the prisoner reasoned with him about…
- PersonHerod Agrippa IIThe last of the Herodian kings, who heard Paul's defence at Caesarea alongside Bernice and Festus and answered with the most quoted half-sentence in Acts: with but little…
- PersonHerod Agrippa IThe king who killed James the brother of John with the sword, imprisoned Peter, and died at Caesarea after accepting the acclamation of a crowd calling his voice the voice of a…
Places(2)
- PlaceCaesareaHerod's harbour city on the Mediterranean and the seat of the Roman governors of Judea — where Cornelius's household received the Spirit, and where Paul spent two years in…
- PlacePhilippiA Roman colony in Macedonia and the first city of Europe to hear the gospel — a riverside prayer meeting, a delivered slave girl, a midnight earthquake, and a jailer's…
Themes(4)
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeObedienceObedience enters the story at the very first command. In Eden, the boundary God sets — one tree, one prohibition — is the whole test of the relationship (Gen 2:17), and the…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
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Authors(5+)
- AuthorAcacius of CaesareaAcacius was the pupil, librarian and successor of Eusebius, the historian of the church. He took the see of Caesarea in Palestine about 340 and kept it until his death in 366…
- AuthorAndreas of CaesareaAndreas was archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, in what is now central Turkey. The usual dating puts his working life around the turn of the seventh century; his commentary…
- AuthorArethas of CaesareaArethas was born at Patras, in the Peloponnese, about 860. He came to Constantinople, studied under Photios, and rose through the church until, around 902, he was made…
- AuthorPamphilus of CaesareaPamphilus was born wealthy at Berytus — modern Beirut — and could have had the public career his family expected. He studied at Alexandria under Pierius, who was called the…
- AuthorEusebius of CaesareaEusebius was born about 260, probably in Palestine, and attached himself as a young man to Pamphilus, the priest and scholar who ran the library at Caesarea. That library…