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Acts 17:10

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Paul and Silas at Berea

17:10 The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea 1  at once, during the night. When they arrived, 2  they went to the Jewish synagogue. 3 

Acts 17:15

Context
17:15 Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, 4  and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left. 5 

1 sn Berea (alternate spelling in NRSV Beroea; Greek Beroia) was a very old city in Macedonia on the river Astraeus about 45 mi (75 km) west of Thessalonica.

map For location see JP1 C1; JP2 C1; JP3 C1; JP4 C1.

2 tn Grk “who arriving there, went to.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (οἵτινες, Joitine") has been left untranslated and a new English sentence begun. The participle παραγενόμενοι (paragenomenoi) has been taken temporally.

3 sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

4 map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

5 sn They left. See 1 Thess 3:1-2, which shows they went from here to Thessalonica.



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