• Acts 16:12
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 12 κἀκεῖθεν and from there εἰς into Φιλίππους, Philippi, ἥτις which ἐστὶν is πρώτη first τῆς of the μερίδος part Μακεδονίας of Macedonia πόλις, city, κολωνία. colony. ῏Ημεν We were δὲ but ἐν in ταύτῃ this τῇ the πόλει city διατρίβοντες spending ἡμέρας days τινάς. some.

  • Acts 16:12
    King James Version

    • 12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.

  • Acts Study Notes—Chapter 16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 16:12

      Philippi: This city was originally called Crenides (Krenides). Philip II of Macedon (father of Alexander the Great) took the city from the Thracians about the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. and named it after himself. There were rich gold mines in the area, and gold coins were issued in Philip’s name. About 168 B.C.E., the Roman consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeated Perseus, the last of the Macedonian kings, and took Philippi and the surrounding territory. In 146 B.C.E., all Macedonia was formed into a single Roman province. The battle in which Octavian (Octavius) and Mark Antony defeated the armies of Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, assassins of Julius Caesar, took place on the Plain of Philippi in 42 B.C.E. Afterward, as a memorial of his great victory, Octavian made Philippi a Roman colony. Some years later, when Octavian was made Caesar Augustus by the Roman Senate, he named the town Colonia Augusta Julia Philippensis.​—See App. B13.