JOURNEYING WITH PAUL TO THESSALONICA

Greetings, my fellow pilgrims. I hope you enjoyed our visits last week and are ready to travel on. As we continue to follow in St. Paul’s footsteps on his second missionary journey and leave Lydia’s house in Philippi, we head a little northwest and make a quick stop at Amphipolis, in Greek Macedonia.

Paul and Silas then traveled through the towns of Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.  –Acts 17:1  (NLT)

We know that the next major town that Paul and Silas went to was Thessalonica. To get there, they had to go through Amphipolis and Apollonia. Since the Scriptures do not give us any other information on the two towns, it is probably safe to assume they did not preach at either place on this journey. Continue reading “JOURNEYING WITH PAUL TO THESSALONICA”