Bible Person
Meaning: Sosipater · Male · 2 cross references
Sopater is the Berean believer who travels with Paul and is likely connected with the Sosipater greeted in Romans. He belongs to the network of trusted companions who accompany and support Paul's mission. First appears in Acts 20:4.1
AI summary: Sopater matters because his cross references place him both in the travel company around Paul and in the circle of kinsmen or close associates named in greeting. He represents the translocal network of believers through whom the mission is carried, strengthened, and connected. Taken together, the material presents Sopater as a dependable coworker in the expanding apostolic movement.1
Central Figure
Sopater
Meaning: Sosipater
The father who saves, probably the same as Sosipater, a kinsman of Paul (Rom.
The father who saves, probably the same as Sosipater, a kinsman of Paul (Rom. 16:21), a Christian of the city of Berea who accompanied Paul into Asia (Acts 20:4-6). 3
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.