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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 17:1 - 17:1
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Act 17:1-15. At Thessalonica the success of Paul’s preaching endangering his life, he is dispatched by night to Berea, where his message meets with enlightened acceptance - A hostile movement from Thessalonica occasions his sudden departure from Berea - He arrives at Athens.
when they had passed through Amphipolis - thirty-three miles southwest of Philippi, on the river Strymon, and at the head of the gulf of that name, on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea.
and Apollonia - about thirty miles southwest of Amphipolis; but the exact site is not known.
they came to Thessalonica - about thirty-seven miles due west from Apollonia, at the head of the Thermaic (or Thessalonian) Gulf, at the northwestern extremity of the Aegean Sea; the principal and most populous city in Macedonia. “We see at once how appropriate a place it was for one of the starting-points of the Gospel in Europe, and can appreciate the force of what Paul said to the Thessalonians within a few months of his departure from them: “From you, the word of the Lord sounded forth like a trumpet, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place,”” (1Th 1:8) [Howson].
where was a synagogue of the Jews - implying that (as at Philippi) there was none at Amphipolis and Apollonia.