Mentioned in the Bible by name
Prisca

Time-period: Jesus - (0-100 e.Kr.)
Age: -
Alt. names/spellings: Prisca, Priscilla
Relationships: Aquila (marriage)



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Prisca G4251
Πρίσκα (Priska)
3 times in NT
Priscilla G4252
Πρίσκιλλα (Priscilla)
3 times in NT
Total    6 times

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In Corinth, Paul met a jew named Aquila, born in Pontus [a Roman province on the Black Sea], and his wife Priscilla. [Her more formal name was "Prisca," see Rom. 16:3.] The couple had recently arrived from Italy, because [the fourth Roman emperor] Claudius [reigned 41-54 CE] had ordered all Jews to leave Rom.
[The married couple Aquila and Priscilla are always mentioned together, see Rom. 16:3; 1 Cor. 16:19; 2 Tim. 4:19. Four out of six times, the wife, Priscilla, is mentioned first. They had recently arrived from Rom because Claudius had expelled all Jews from there. This is probably the same event mentioned by the Roman historian Suetonius, where the Jews were expelled due to unrest caused by a certain "Chrestus," which is the Latin name for Christ. This happened in the ninth year of Claudius' reign, i.e. sometime between January 49 and January 50 AD. Paul therefore cannot have come to Corinth before 49 AD.]
Paul came into contact with them [visited their home].
Paul stayed many days after this. Then he said goodbye to the brothers and sisters in the faith and sailed for Syria with Priscilla and Aquila. In Cenchreae [the southern port city of Corinth], Paul shaved his head, for he had made a vow.
[Perhaps Paul had made a Nazirite vow, see Num. 6:1–21. Normally, he would have shaved his head in Jerusalem, but he could do it earlier and take the hair with him to perform the Jewish ritual in Jerusalem. Nazirite vows are made when someone wants to serve the Lord in a special way. The Hebrew word nazir means "devoted" and "consecrated." The vow was time-limited, see Num. 6:4. In the case of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:11) and Samson (Judg 13:2–7), their mothers gave them a lifelong Nazirite vow. John the Baptist is mentioned in similar terms, see Luke 1:13–17. Extra-biblical sources show that Nazirite vows were common and served as offerings of gratitude. The vow period for these was usually 30 days. See also Acts 21:23–26.]
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside (took him aside so they could talk to him undisturbed) and taught (explained to) him even more accurately (more thoroughly, correctly) about "the way of God."[Apollos only knew about John's baptism of repentance. The expression "the way of God" probably refers here to the basics of the gospel: how Jesus died for our sins and rose again, baptism in the Holy Spirit, etc. The eloquent Apollos was taught by a tentmaker and his wife. During these conversations, they probably also told him about all the amazing things that were happening in the church in Corinth, where people were functioning in the gifts of the Spirit. Priscilla and Aquila had recently come from there, see verse 2. Perhaps Apollos was inspired by their stories and also wanted to visit the church there.]
[The following list of personal greetings mentions 26 people by name, plus two more without names, Rufus' mother and Nereus' sister. That makes a total of 28 people, the largest number in any of Paul's letters. It is noteworthy that 9 of them are women, which shows how highly Paul values women's service in the church. When the letter was written, it had been about 25 years since Pentecost, and many believers lived in the capital of the empire, Rom. Paul had probably met several of these people in Jerusalem or during his travels.]
Greet Prisca and [her husband] Aquila,
my fellow workers in Christ Jesus.
The churches in Asia [including those in the cities of Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Hierapolis, Laodicea, Colossae, and Miletus] send their greetings to you.
Aquila and [his wife] Prisca, and the church in their house [here in Ephesus], send you greetings in the Lord. [A married couple who worked with Paul as tentmakers. They had fled from Rom to Corinth in connection with Claudius' expulsion of the Jews. From there they had accompanied Paul to Ephesus. In the Acts of the Apostles she is called Priscilla, while Paul always uses her formal name Prisca.]
Greet Prisca and [her husband] Aquila
and the family of Onesiphorus.
[All these people were in Ephesus. In the Acts of the Apostles, the more informal name Priscilla is used instead of Prisca.]