One of the best ways to identify historical context is from the Bible itself. In this post, Kenneth Berding shows us how many historical details are simply bursting off the page in Colossians chapter 4.
Berding shares nine things that we simply would not know if Colossians 4 weren’t in the scriptures:
- Colossians and Philemon were sent by Paul at the same time (4:9)
- Aristarchus was a “co-prisoner” with Paul (4:10)
- Barnabas had a cousin (4:10)
- Paul had a co-worker named Jesus (4:11)
- Colossae’s pastor was Epaphras (4:12-13)
- Luke was a doctor (4:14)
- Demas used to be a valued co-worker of Paul (4:14)
- Paul also sent a letter to the Laodiceans (4:16)
- Archippus had a ministry in the church in Colossae (4:17)
