3 others in the registry answer to the name Gaius. Every Gaius in the Bible
person
Gaius
Γάϊος
Gaius, a Macedonian and traveling companion of Paul, was seized along with Aristarchus during the riot in Ephesus.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Acts 19:29
- last named
- Acts 19:29
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Gaius?
Gaius, a Macedonian, was one of Paul's traveling companions during his third missionary journey. In Act.19.29, Gaius and Aristarchus, another Macedonian, were seized by the mob during the riot in Ephesus. The riot was instigated by Demetrius, a silversmith who made shrines of Artemis, because he felt threatened by Paul's preaching and the spread of Christianity in the city. The mob dragged Gaius and Aristarchus into the theater, but Paul was prevented from entering by his disciples and some officials of the province of Asia who were his friends. The incident highlights the opposition and dangers faced by Paul and his companions as they spread the gospel in pagan cities.
Relations
Direct connections
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Stands in the same events as
- Aristarchus1 event
Places
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The pattern
Where Gaius is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (1).
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