Bible Person
Meaning: a man excelling others · Male · 1 cross reference
Andronicus is the Jewish Christian greeted with Junia in Romans 16:7. Paul identifies him as a kinsman and fellow prisoner, and the verse presents the pair as believers of longstanding and recognized standing in the early church. First appears in Rom 16:7.1
AI summary: Andronicus matters because his single cross reference preserves Paul's high regard for a believer who had suffered imprisonment and was already in Christ before Paul. Romans 16:7 also uses language often translated either as saying that Andronicus and Junia were well known to the apostles or that they were outstanding among the apostles, so the verse has been read in more than one way. Taken together, the material presents Andronicus as a respected early Christian remembered for seniority, suffering, and recognized standing.1
Central Figure
Andronicus
Meaning: a man excelling others
Man-conquering, a Jewish Christian, the kinsman and fellowprisoner of Paul (Rom.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person 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.