place · also Roman
Rome
Ῥωμαῖος
Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire, where Paul was imprisoned and wrote several epistles (Act.28.16; Rom. 1:7).
- verses
- 28
- first named
- John 11:48
- last named
- 2 Timothy 1:17
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 41.89°N · 12.49°E
Rome (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Rome in the text
Rome, the capital city of the Roman Empire, plays a significant role in the New Testament. It was the seat of power for the vast empire that ruled over much of the known world during the time of Jesus and the early church. Rome is mentioned in various contexts throughout the book of Acts and the epistles. Paul, as a Roman citizen, appealed to Caesar and was brought to Rome to stand trial (Act.25.11-12; 28:16). He spent at least two years under house arrest in Rome, during which time he wrote several epistles (Act.28.30-31; Eph. 6:20; Phil. 1:13; Col. 4:18; Philem. 1:1). Paul also expressed his desire to visit the church in Rome (Act.19.21; Rom. 1:10-15; 15:23-24). The church in Rome, though not founded by Paul, was well-established and included both Jewish and Gentile believers (Act.28.17-28; Rom. 1:7; 16:3-16). Rome was also the place where Emperor Claudius had expelled the Jews, including Aquila and Priscilla, leading them to settle in Corinth (Act.18.2). Tradition holds that both Paul and Peter were martyred in Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. The city of Rome, with its political and cultural significance, served as a strategic center for the spread of the gospel and the growth of the early 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.
Associated with
Stands in the same events as
- Paul1 event
- Onesiphorus1 event
The pattern
Where Rome 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.
28 verses across 9 of 66 books; 57 write the name nowhere. Named in John (1), Acts (17), Romans (3), Galatians (1), Ephesians (1), Philippians (1), Colossians (1), 2 Timothy (2) and Philemon (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 28, across 9 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources