Lives of Scripture
Asia Minor
Also called: Anatolia
Modern location: Turkey
First named: Acts 16:6
The peninsula (modern Turkey) that hosted much of Paul's missionary work and many of the churches addressed in the New Testament epistles — Ephesus, Colossae, Laodicea, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe among them. Paul's team was at one point supernaturally redirected away from the province of Asia and toward Macedonia instead (Acts 16:6-10), and Peter's first letter is addressed to believers scattered across several of the region's provinces (1 Peter 1:1).
References: Acts 16:6; Acts 16:6-10; Acts 19; 1 Peter 1:1
People connected to Asia Minor
- Demetrius (M) — a believer of this region, well spoken of by everyone
3 John 1:12
- Diotrephes (M) — a church leader of this region who rejected the apostle John's authority
3 John 1:9-10
- Gaius — the believer of this region John commended for his hospitality
3 John 1:1-8
- Paul (M) — evangelized much of this region on his missionary journeys
Acts 16:6; Acts 19:10
- Phygelus (M) — one of the believers of this region who turned away from Paul
2 Timothy 1:15
- Tychicus (M) — of this region, a trusted courier of Paul's letters to its churches
Colossians 4:7; Ephesians 6:21