Aristarchus

Family: Christian · Role: Paul's traveling companion · First appears: Acts 19

Aristarchus is a Christian and a traveling companion of Paul. In Acts 19, a rioting crowd seized him and Gaius and rushed them into the theatre, identifying them as “Paul’s companions in travel.” In Acts 20, Aristarchus accompanied Paul into Asia with other companions.

In Acts 27, Aristarchus was aboard the ship with Paul and Julius when it ran aground and broke apart under the waves; all aboard escaped safely to land, “some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship.” In Philemon, he is listed with Marcus, Demas, and Lucas as Philemon’s fellowlabourers and friends.

Relationship record

Life events

• The rioting crowd seized Gaius and Aristarchus and rushed with them into the theatre.(Acts 19 · 📍 the theatre)
  • With: Gaius
  • “And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.”
• The ship runs aground and breaks apart under the waves.(Acts 27)
  • With: Paul Julius
  • “And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.”
• All aboard escape safely to land after the shipwreck.(Acts 27)
  • With: Paul Julius
  • “And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.”

Acts 19

• with Paul (Aristarchus was Paul's traveling companion.) “And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.”
• friends with Paul (Aristarchus was Paul's companion in travel.) “And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.”

Acts 20

• with Paul (Aristarchus travelled with Paul.) “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.”
• with Paul (Travel companions) “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.”

Acts 27

• with Paul (Aristarchus was traveling with Paul and the others.) “one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.”

Colossians 4

• with Paul (Aristarchus is Paul's fellow prisoner.) “Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you”

Philemon 1

• friends with Philemon (Aristarchus sends Philemon a salutation) “Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.”

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