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Thessalonica

Thessalonica, a prominent city in Macedonia, where Paul established a church and wrote two epistles to the believers.

The name Thessalonica means “victory against the Thessalians”

PlaceNew Testament5 books12 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Acts 17:1; referred to as Thessalonica (Θεσσαλονίκη) or Thessalonian (Θεσσαλονικεύς).

Location

Identified as
Thessaloniki
Certainty
Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates
40.638° N, 22.946° E
Thessalonica
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Events

Dates are approximate

Glossary entries

Thessalonica

Alternative names

Mentions

Includes 1 verse that refer to Thessalonica without naming it.

  1. Acts 17:1
    When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
  2. Acts 17:6Referred to, not named
    But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,
  3. Acts 17:11
    Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
  4. Acts 17:13
    But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
  5. Acts 20:4
    Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
  6. Acts 27:2
    We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
  7. Philippians 4:16
    For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again and again.
  8. 1 Thessalonians 1:1
    Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.
  9. 1 Thessalonians 5:28
    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
  10. 2 Thessalonians 1:1
    Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
  11. 2 Thessalonians 3:18
    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.
  12. 2 Timothy 4:10
    …because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.