place · also Italian
Italy
Ἰταλία
Italy, a region in southern Europe, home to the Roman Empire.
- verses
- 6
- first named
- Acts 10:1
- last named
- Acts 27:6
- feature
- region
Description
Italy in the text
Italy is mentioned several times in the New Testament as a region in southern Europe, home to the Roman Empire. In Act.18.2, we learn that Aquila, a Jew from Pontus, had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla due to the emperor Claudius' decree expelling all Jews from Rome. In Act.27.1, 6, Paul embarks on his journey to Rome, sailing on ships from Alexandria and Adramyttium that were bound for Italy. The author of Hebrews also mentions Italy, sending greetings from those who had come from there (Hebrews 13:24). Additionally, Act.10.1 mentions the Italian Regiment, a Roman military unit stationed in Caesarea. These references highlight the significant role Italy played in the early spread of Christianity and its connection to the Roman Empire.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 2 books.
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
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
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