Bible Location
Meaning: a nation made up of every tribe · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Pamphylia was the Roman coastal province in southern Asia Minor between Lycia and Cilicia. It is important because it appears in Acts as part of the setting for Paul's journeys and as one of the regions represented at Pentecost. First appears in Acts 2:10.1
AI summary: Pamphylia matters less as a single city and more as a mission corridor. Acts places people from Pamphylia in Jerusalem at Pentecost, then later uses the province as part of Paul's route through Perga and the southern coast of Asia Minor. It is also tied to the difficult moment when John Mark leaves the mission party. The cross references present Pamphylia as a coastal province woven into the movement, setbacks, and expansion of the apostolic mission.1
Paul and his company, loosing from Paphos, sailed north-west and came to Perga, the capital of Pamphylia (Acts 13:13, 14), a province about the middle of the southern sea-board of Asia Minor. It lay between Lycia on the west and Cilicia on the east. There were strangers from Pamphylia at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (2:10). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.