Category:Berea

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Berea - A city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, Acts 17:13), and from which also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the sea-coast and thence sailed to Athens (Acts 17:14, Acts 17:15). Sopater, one of Paul's companions belonged to this city, and his conversion probably took place at this time (Acts 20:4). It is now called Verria.