Discovery BoxActs 17:10 
Context17:10 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
Context17:15 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.
