Silas
실라
Named at Acts 15:22 with Judas called Barsabbas, “chief men among the brothers,” whom the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chose to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. Acts 15:32 says that Judas and Silas were also prophets, who encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them, and at 15:40 Paul chooses Silas and goes out. At 16:19–24 Paul and Silas are seized and dragged before the rulers, beaten with rods, and thrown into prison; at 16:25 Paul and Silas are praying and singing hymns to God about midnight, and at 16:29 the jailer falls down trembling before Paul and Silas. At 17:1–4 some at Thessalonica are persuaded and join Paul and Silas; at 17:10–15 the brothers send Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea, and when Paul is sent out to go as far as to the sea, Silas and Timothy still stay at Beroea, and those who escorted Paul receive a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly; and at 18:5 Silas and Timothy come down from Macedonia.
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- ACT 15:22–29, engwebp
22Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
23They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
25it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
- ACT 15:30–33, engwebp
30So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
31When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
32Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
33After they had spent some time there, they were dismissed in peace from the brothers to the apostles.
- ACT 15:35, engwebp
35But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
- ACT 15:36–41, engwebp
36After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
37Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
38But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
39Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
40but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
41He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
- ACT 16:19–24, engwebp
19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
20When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city
21and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
22The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
24Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
- ACT 16:25–34, engwebp
25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
29He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
30brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
32They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
33He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
34He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.
- ACT 17:1–9, engwebp
1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
5But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
7whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
8The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
9When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
- ACT 17:10–15, engwebp
10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
15But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
- ACT 18:5–11, engwebp
5When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
7He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
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Unresolved interpretation: Silvanus and Silas
- 1 Thessalonians 1:1 says, “Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ”.
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- 1TH 1:1, engwebp
1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1TH 1:1, engwebp
- 2 Corinthians 1:19 speaks of “the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy”.
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- 2CO 1:15–22, engwebp
15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
17When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
18But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
22who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
- 2CO 1:15–22, engwebp
- Acts 15:22 says, “Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.”
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- ACT 15:22–29, engwebp
22Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
23They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
25it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
- ACT 15:22–29, engwebp
- Acts 17:1 says that there was a Jewish synagogue at Thessalonica, and 17:4, “Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.”
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- ACT 17:1–9, engwebp
1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
4Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
5But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
7whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
8The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
9When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
- ACT 17:1–9, engwebp
- Acts 18:5 says, “When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.”
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- ACT 18:5–11, engwebp
5When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
7He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
- ACT 18:5–11, engwebp
1 Thessalonians 1:1 names Silvanus with Paul and Timothy, and 2 Corinthians 1:19 says “by me, Silvanus, and Timothy”. Acts 15:22 names Judas called Barsabbas and Silas as the men chosen to be sent to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, 17:4 names Paul and Silas, and 18:5 Silas and Timothy, with Paul. Both editions write Silvanus (the Korean 실루아노) at 1 Thessalonians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 1:19, and Silas (the Korean 실라) at Acts 15:22, 17:4 and 18:5. The text does not say whether the two names are one man. This collection keeps two entries, and decides nothing.
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Took part in (8) — Judas and Silas chosen and sent to Antioch with a letter, The letter delivered at Antioch; Judas and Silas encourage the brothers, Paul and Barnabas separate over John called Mark, Paul and Silas seized, beaten with rods and thrown into prison, A great earthquake at midnight; the jailer and his household are baptized, At Thessalonica Paul reasons from the Scriptures; Jason is dragged before the rulers of the city, At Beroea the Scriptures are examined daily; Paul is brought as far as Athens, Paul says he will go to the Gentiles; the Lord speaks to him in a vision by night
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Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Silas (person-silas) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/silas Current wording: Named at Acts 15:22 with Judas called Barsabbas, “chief men among the brothers,” whom the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chose to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. Acts 15:32 says that Judas and Silas were also prophets, who encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them, and at 15:40 Paul chooses Silas and goes out. At 16:19–24 Paul and Silas are seized and dragged before the rulers, beaten with rods, and thrown into prison; at 16:25 Paul and Silas are praying and singing hymns to God about midnight, and at 16:29 the jailer falls down trembling before Paul and Silas. At 17:1–4 some at Thessalonica are persuaded and join Paul and Silas; at 17:10–15 the brothers send Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea, and when Paul is sent out to go as far as to the sea, Silas and Timothy still stay at Beroea, and those who escorted Paul receive a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly; and at 18:5 Silas and Timothy come down from Macedonia. Cited evidence: ACT 15:22–29, engwebp / ACT 15:30–33, engwebp / ACT 15:35, engwebp / ACT 15:36–41, engwebp / ACT 16:19–24, engwebp / ACT 16:25–34, engwebp / ACT 17:1–9, engwebp / ACT 17:10–15, engwebp (and 1 more of 9) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.