Chapter 1 When Paul went up to Iconium after his flight from Antioch, Demas and Hermogenes became his companions, who were then full of hypocrisy. But Paul looked only at the goodness of God and ...

Furious, the Jews began to move to drive him out and Paul contemptuously shook the dust from his shoes, stalked off to Iconium, to continue his mission there. Even with the superb Roman road ...

According to this popular text, Thecla was a native of Iconium, now the town of Konya in central Turkey, where she received the message of Paul as he was preaching next door to her family’s home.

He [Paul] reached [also] Derbe and Lystra where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. The brothers in Lystra and Iconium ...