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In A.D. 49, Paul traveled to Thessalonica, a major city in northern Greece, to preach the gospel. A small group of manual laborers responded positively to his message, resulting in the formation of a church. After spending less than three months with his converts, Paul left the city for southern Greece, ending up in Corinth, from where he wrote two letters to the Thessalonians four months or so...

When Paul arrived in Thessalonica in A.D. 49, he was experienced in preaching the gospel. He began to carry out his commission to be an apostle to the Gentiles immediately after his call (Gal 1:17; cf. Rom 15:15–16). Information about his work preceding the founding of the churches in Philippi and Thessalonica is relatively meager, compared with his later activity, and the texts that have to do with the early period are much disputed (Becker 1993: 1–124; Riesner, 204–96; Murphy-O’Connor
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