The background.
St. Paul was a Jew, brought up in the Greek urban center of Tarsus, a member of the pharisaic party, educated in capital of Israel to be a rabbi, so zealous for the law that he persecuted Christians relentlessly until; on the road to Damascus he had an recover with the lord Jesus, was transformed completely and became the apostle to the gentiles.
It was only twenty eld or so after the ascension of Our Lord and near 51 C.E. that he wrote the first letter to the Thessalonians from the city of Corinth. It is the oldest Christian writing in existence today and gives us a glimpse into the very beginnings of Christianity.
A few months before he had get over from Troas to Macedonia, bringing the gospel from Asia to Europe. From Philippi Paul went on to Thessalonica, Berea, capital of Greece and then Corinth.
- At the council of Jerusalem: it was agreed that Paul should gallop his ministry among the Gentiles (Acts15)
- Paul begins a second tour among the Gentiles, first revisiting the churches that he had already founded (Acts15.36)
- Paul wanted to head north in Asia Minor. (Acts 16.8)
- The vision of the Macedonian man (Acts 16.9-10)
- Mission of Paul and Silas in Philippi (Acts 16.11-40)
Where he is beaten, whipped, put in chains and displace to prison.
Realising that he was a roman citizen they freed him. But he had to hightail it again.
The circumstances;
- Paul and Silas go to Thessalonica (7.1)
- Paul goes to the synagogue and discusses book of account with the Jews (Acts 17.2-3) He preached for three Sabbaths (acts 17;2) (people went to the synagogue three quantify a week at that time, although he may father preached in the temple daily, but he probably stayed agelong with the gentiles,
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