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    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
    • Luke, in describing the regions from which the Jews had come to Jerusalem at the time of Pentecost in the year 33 C.E., lists Asia along with the provinces of Cappadocia, Pontus, and Pamphylia. (Ac 2:9, 10; compare 1Pe 1:1.) He there lists Phrygia apart from Asia, as he does again at Acts 16:6. Pliny the Elder, Roman author of the first century C.E., did likewise. (Natural History, V, XXVIII, 102) The account at Acts 16:6, 7 states that Paul was “forbidden by the holy spirit to speak the word in the district of Asia” when traveling westward on his second missionary tour (c. 49-52 C.E.). He therefore moved through Phrygia and Galatia northward toward the province of Bithynia, but he was again diverted westward through Mysia to the seaport of Troas, the natural point for embarking to Macedonia. Here Paul received his vision inviting him to “step over into Macedonia and help us.” (Ac 16:9) So, whereas Paul actually passed through the northern part of the province of Asia, he did not spend time there until his return trip after completing his work in Macedonia and Achaia. He then spent a short time in Ephesus, preaching in the synagogue and, at his departure, promised to return.​—Ac 18:19-21.

  • Asia
    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
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      ASIA MINOR​—Old Regional Names

      MYSIA

      Troas

      BITHYNIA

      PAPHLAGONIA

      GALATIAN PONTUS

      GALATIA

      LYDIA

      Ephesus

      ASIAN PHRYGIA

      GALATIAN PHRYGIA

      CAPPADOCIA

      LYCAONIA

      CARIA

      PISIDIA

      Antioch

      PAMPHYLIA

      LYCIA

      CILICIA

      COMMAGENE

      SYRIA

      Antioch

      Great Sea

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      ASIA MINOR​—Roman Province Names

      ASIA

      Troas

      Assos

      Adramyttium

      Pergamum

      Thyatira

      Sardis

      Smyrna

      Philadelphia

      Hierapolis

      Ephesus

      SAMOS

      Laodicea

      Colossae

      Miletus

      PATMOS

      BITHYNIA AND PONTUS

      GALATIA

      Antioch

      KINGDOM OF POLEMON

      CAPPADOCIA

      KINGDOM OF ANTIOCHUS

      CILICIA AND SYRIA

      Antioch

      LYCIA

      Myra

      PAMPHYLIA

      CYPRUS

      Great Sea

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