- verses
- 2
- first named
- Romans 16:1
- last named
- Romans 16:2
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was Phoebe?
Phoebe was a prominent woman in the early Christian church, mentioned by Paul in his letter to the Romans (Rom.16.1-2). She was a deacon (or servant) of the church in Cenchreae, a port city near Corinth. Paul described her as a "sister" and a "patron" or "benefactor" of many, including Paul himself. This suggests that Phoebe was a woman of means who used her resources to support the ministry of the church and traveling missionaries like Paul.
It is likely that Phoebe was the one who delivered Paul's letter to the Romans, as Paul commended her to the believers in Rome and asked them to receive her in a manner worthy of the saints and to assist her in whatever she needed. This demonstrates the trust Paul had in Phoebe and her role in the early church.
As a deacon, Phoebe would have been responsible for various forms of service and ministry within the church, possibly including charitable work, hospitality, and spiritual guidance. Her example highlights the significant contributions of women in the early spread of Christianity and their active roles in the life of the church.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources