Amphipolis

We're going to take a little tour of where Paul went to, and you're going to see what I'm talking about with each one of these different places.

Acts 17.1 says this, when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica.

So I'm going to tell you, so we're up here.

So he starts this trip up here, and he goes, I can never say that word, Amphipolis.

And so now he keeps traveling, so he shared the gospel here and shared the gospel here.

And then he comes over here, and he's on his way to Thessalonica.

And while they were gazing into heaven, as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes and said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

Now, when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

And Paul went in and was his custom.

And on three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead and saying, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.

Deceiving the enemy by this empty show, Spartacus by night silently led out his troops.

When Brasidas, a general of the Spartans, was surprised near Amphipolis by a host of Athenians who outnumbered him, he allowed himself to be enveloped in order to diminish the density of the enemy's ranks by lengthening the line of besiegers.

Then he broke through at the point where the line was most lightly held.

Amphicrates, when campaigning in Thrace, having on one occasion pitched his camp on low ground, discovered through scouts that the neighbouring hill was held by the enemy, and that from it came down a single road which might be utilized to overwhelm him and his men.

Their life is full of trouble.

Acts 17 Paul and Silas then traveled through the towns of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

As was Paul's custom, he went to the synagogue service, and for three Sabbaths in a row he used the Scriptures to reason with the people.

He explained the prophecies and proved that the Messiah must suffer and rise from the dead.

Acts chapter 17, verses 1 through 15.

When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead.

This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah, he said.

After all, he lived in Therma.

And I don't believe he'd traveled to Amphipolis more than two or three times on business for King Philip II.

And he'd never before been a guest in our home.

Still, Demonstratus, my husband and I, did our poor best to prepare for his arrival.

And most assuredly, it was not Felinian.

The very idea.

MacCady's must know many women in Amphipolis.

He must have stirred more than one feminine heart in the past.

17, verse 1.

Now, when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, and you can say that however you want to.

I just said how I wanted to.

They came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

And this, O men of Athens, is a true saying.

Strange indeed would be my conduct, O men of Athens, if I, who when I was ordered by the generals whom you chose to command me at Potidaea, and Amphipolis, and Delium, remained where they placed me, like any other man, facing death, if now, when, as I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfil the philosopher's mission of searching into himself, and other men— I were to desert my post through fear of death, or any other fear.

That would indeed be strange, and I might be justly arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods, if I disobeyed the oracle because I was afraid of death, fancying that I was wise when I was not wise.

For the fear of death is indeed a pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown.

Spartacus by night silently led out his troops.

When Brasidas, a general of the Spartans, was surprised near Amphipolis by a host of Athenians who outnumbered him, he allowed himself to be enveloped in order to diminish the density of the enemy's ranks by lengthening the line of besiegers.

Then he broke through at the point where the line was most lightly held.

Iphcrates, when campaigning in Thrace, having on one occasion pitched his camp on low ground, discovered through scouts that the neighbouring hill was held by the enemy, and that from it came down a single road which might be utilized to overwhelm him and his men.