After a night escape from Thessalonica, Paul and Silas arrive at Berea and go straight to the synagogue (Acts 17:10). That is where the trouble starts again: when Jews from Thessalonica heard “that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people” (Acts 17:13). Berea shows up once more, much later, when Sopater of Berea is named among the men who travel with Paul into Asia (Acts 20:4). A small town, remembered for a welcome and for a loyal companion. Read Acts 17:10-14.
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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
A city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and from which also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the sea-coast and thence sailed to Athens (14, 15). Sopater, one of Paul’s companions belonged to this city, and his conversion probably took place at this time (Acts 20:4). It is now called Verria.