- verses
- 6
- first named
- Acts 18:2
- last named
- 2 Timothy 4:19
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was Priscilla?
Priscilla, also referred to as Prisca, was a prominent Jewish Christian woman in the early church. She is consistently mentioned alongside her husband, Aquila, suggesting that they worked together as a team in ministry. Priscilla and Aquila were originally from Rome but had been forced to leave due to the emperor Claudius' edict expelling the Jews (Act.18.2). They settled in Corinth, where they met the apostle Paul and worked with him as tentmakers (Act.18.3). When Paul left Corinth, Priscilla and Aquila accompanied him to Ephesus (Act.18.18). In Ephesus, they encountered Apollos, a learned Jewish Christian, and instructed him more accurately in the way of God (Act.18.26). This event highlights Priscilla's knowledge of the Scriptures and her active role in teaching and discipleship. Priscilla and Aquila also hosted a church in their home, both in Ephesus (1Co.16.19) and later in Rome (Rom.16.3-5). Paul's warm greetings to the couple in his letters testify to their close friendship and partnership in the gospel ministry (Rom.16.3-4; 2Ti.4.19). Priscilla's example demonstrates the significant contributions of women in the early spread of Christianity and their active roles in the life of the church.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Priscilla 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.
6 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (3), Romans (1), 1 Corinthians (1) and 2 Timothy (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 4 books. The name is written 9 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Acts 18Priscilla worked with Paul, travelled to Ephesus, and helped Aquila explain the way of God to Apollos more accurately.
- Romans 16Prisca is greeted with Aquila as a fellow worker who risked her life for the writer.
- 1 Corinthians 16Prisca sends a warm greeting with Aquila and the church that meets at their house.
- 2 Timothy 4Prisca is greeted alongside Aquila.
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