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Paul lived with Priscilla and Aquila for approximately 18 months. Then the couple started out to accompany Paul when he proceeded to Syria, but stopped at Ephesus in the Roman province of Asia, now part of modern Turkey. In 1 Corinthians 16:19, Paul passes on the greetings of Priscilla and Aquila to their friends in Corinth, indicating that the ...
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.
Aquila (Hebrew: עֲקִילַס ʿăqīlas, fl. 130 CE) of Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey; Latin: Aquila Ponticus) was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, a proselyte, and disciple of Rabbi Akiva.
Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, together with saints Aquila and Priscilla, on 13 February. Apollos is considered one of the 70 apostles [20] and his feast day is December 8 in the Eastern Orthodox church.
Priscilla – wife of Aquila, and missionary partner to Paul the Apostle. Acts, Romans, ... She is given no name in the Bible, but is known as Zuleika (among other ...
Priscilla and Aquila; R. Rhoda (biblical figure) S. Salome; Salome (disciple) Samaritan woman at the well; Susanna (disciple) Syrophoenician woman; T. Tryphena and ...
Verse 5 mentions a church that met in the house of Aquila and Priscilla. Verses 14 and 15 each mention groupings of believers and saints. [35] Jews were expelled from Rome because of disturbances around AD 49 by the edict of Claudius.
Though some legends suggest otherwise, scholars do not believe she is the Priscilla (Prisca) of the New Testament couple Priscilla and Aquila, who were friends of the Apostle Paul. [1] Saint Prisca and the lion, in a print by Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600. She is honored, especially in England, as a child martyr. January 18 is her feast day.