Lexicon :: Strong's G4172 - polis

“Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town how much Jesus had done for him.

“If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two[fn] others, and he sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself was about to go.

He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem.

“So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

“There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God or respect people.

“ ‘Well done, good[fn] servant! ’ he told him. ‘Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, have authority over ten towns.’

“Listen,” he said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.

(He had been thrown into prison for a rebellion that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)

“And look, I am sending you[fn] what my Father promised. As for you, stay in the city[fn] until you are empowered[fn] from on high.”

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[fn] that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.

Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.

“For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

In addition, a multitude came together from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Philip went down to a[fn] city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.

“But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

The next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on the roof about noon.[fn]

“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a trance, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.

After they passed the first and second guards, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and suddenly the angel left him.

The following Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word of the Lord.[fn]

But the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews and others with the apostles.

“For since ancient times, Moses has had those who proclaim him in every city, and every Sabbath day he is read aloud in the synagogues.”

As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.