Priscilla

Family: Christian · Role: tentmaker · First appears: Acts 18

Priscilla, a Christian tentmaker, is married to Aquila. In Acts 18, after Claudius commanded the Jews to leave Rome, she came with Aquila and worked alongside Paul, who shared their craft as a tentmaker. At Ephesus, she and Aquila heard Apollos and instructed him more fully in the way of God: “they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.”

In Romans 16, Paul names Priscilla and Aquila as his helpers in Christ Jesus and says they risked their lives for him: “Who have for my life laid down their own necks.” In 1 Corinthians 16, Priscilla and Aquila send greetings with the church that meets in their house.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aquila and Priscilla instructed Apollos more fully in the way of God.(Acts 18 · 📍 Ephesus)
  • With: Aquila Apollos
  • “whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.”
• Priscilla and Aquila are identified as Paul’s helpers who risked their lives for him.(Romans 16)
  • With: Paul Aquila
  • “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: Who have for my life laid down their own necks:”
• Aquila and Priscilla are identified as hosting a church in their house.(1 Corinthians 16)
  • With: Aquila
  • “Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.”

Acts 18

• married with Aquila “And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.”
• with Paul (They shared the occupation of tentmaking.) “And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.”
• pupil: Apollos “whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.”
• commander: Claudius “And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.”

Romans 16

• friends with Paul “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:”
• with Paul (Priscilla risked her life for Paul.) “Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.”

1 Corinthians 16

• with Aquila (Aquila and Priscilla jointly host the church in their house.) “Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.”

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.