Philippi
The town of Philippi is on this continent.
What is the continent of Europe?
Where Paul went to in search of a place of prayer.
What is the river?
Lydia is described as having this kind of business.
What is a seller of purple cloth?
The continent that Lydia was from.
What is Asia?
At the time of Paul’s first visit to Philippi there were ___ number of synagogues in the town.
What is 0?
The Jewish day of rest.
What is the sabbath?
What Lydia did first after hearing Paul’s message.
What is getting baptized?
The two books of the Bible that mention the city of Thyatira.
What are Acts and Revelation
The population of Philippi in first century was between ________ and ________ people.
What is between 10,000 and 15,000?
This is a little odd fact about the way verbs are used in the story of Lydia compared to most of the other parts of the book of Acts.
What is 1st person?
The reason given as to why Lydia’s heart was opened to Paul’s message.
What is the Lord?
Thyatiran purple dyes were made from these two natural materials.
What are shellfish and a kind of root?
What is twice?
The reason Lydia claimed to be qualified to invite Paul and his friends to stay at her house.
What is being faithful to the Lord?
The reason some scholars believe that Lydia isn’t actually the woman’s given name.
What is the fact that Lydia is the name of the province where Thyatira is located?(ie. the Lydian from Thyatira)
This is the meaning of the modern name for ancient Thyatira.
What is “White Castle”?
The years during which Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians?
What is 61-62 ad?
Besides being from Thyatira and being a seller of purple goods this was also used as a descriptor of Lydia in Acts 16: 14.
What is the fact that Lydia was a worshiper of God?
Some scholars believe that this is the only other possible reference to the person of Lydia in the New Testament besides the Acts 16 story.
What is Revelation 2?
What is the modern place name in Turkey for the ancient city of Thyatira?
What is Ak-hissar?