Bible Location
Meaning: heavy; weighty · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Berea was the Macedonian city where Paul and Silas found a more receptive synagogue audience after leaving Thessalonica. It is important because it became a model place for careful scriptural examination. First appears in Acts 17:10.1
AI summary: Berea matters because Acts uses it to contrast noble reception with hostile resistance elsewhere. The believers there examine the Scriptures eagerly and carefully, yet opposition still eventually reaches the city. The cross references present Berea as a place of discernment, receptivity, and continued pressure in the Pauline mission.1
A city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and from which also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the sea-coast and thence sailed to Athens (14, 15). Sopater, one of Paul’s companions belonged to this city, and his conversion probably took place at this time (Acts 20:4). It is now called Verria. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.