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INITIAL APPEARANCES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT According to and Prisca were tentmakers, as Paul Of Tarsus is said to have been. They had been among the Christian s expelled from Rome by the Emperor Claudius in the year 49. Prisca and Aquila ended up in Corinth (Greece). Paul lived with Prisca and Aquila for approximately 18 months. Then the couple started out to accompany Paul when he next went to Syria , but stopped at Ephesus (in modern Turkey). ACTIONS AS AN EVANGELIST In Acts 18:24-28, a powerful evangelist in Ephesus named Apollos is mentioned, who "taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the Way of God to him more accurately." In other words, Prisca, assisted by her husband, is the earliest known teacher of Christian theology after Paul (and possibly Jesus of Nazareth -- scholarly opinion is divided as to whether his pronouncements were seen by him as the establishment of a new theology or new ideas within Judaism). In ), it can be inferred that Apollos, a Jew from Alexandria , accompanied Prisca and Aquila when they returned to Corinth. This presumably happened before 54, when Claudius died and the expulsion was lifted. In Romans 16:3, written in 56 or 57, Paul sends his greetings to Prisca and Aquila and notes that both of them "risked their necks" to save Paul's life. It appears that the couple had returned home. SEE ALSO |
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