ISB ~ Acts 16 v12

Philippi:A colony of retired army veterans in the Roman province of Macedonia (northern Greece). About eight miles inland from the Aegean Sea, the city was named after Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. The Church established there (A.D. 50) later received Paul’s NT letter to the Philippians. Few Jews settled in Philippi in the NT period, and it apparently had no synagogue, only a “place of prayer” where pious women gathered on the Sabbath (16:13). According to Jewish tradition, a synagogue could not be built unless ten or more household heads (males) lived in the area.