About 50 AD, while on his second missionary journey, Paul the Apostle reasoned with the Jews from the Scriptures in this city's chief synagogue on three Sabbaths and sowed the seeds for Thessaloniki's first Christian church. During Paul's time in the city, both Jews and Greeks came to believe the Gospel, as well as some of the city's leading women. However, because the remaining Jews at the synagogue were furious with Paul for what he'd done in their community and were also furious with those who had come to believe Paul's message, the Apostle and his traveling companions, Silas and Timothy, were eventually sent out of Thessaloniki during the night by the new Christian converts. From there the church planters went to Veroia, aka Berea, where the people in that city also heard and believed the Gospel. This so enraged the Thessalonian Jews when they found out what Paul and his companions had done, the Jews went to Berea and persecuted the evangelists in that city also. The three men eventually continued their travels and ministry; and, Paul wrote two letters to the new church at Thessaloniki, probably between 51 and 53, the First Epistle to the Thessalonians and the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. These letters were to encourage the new believers to persist in the faith in the face of strong opposition, to encourage personal sanctification, to encourage them about those who had "fallen asleep," yet to warn about the Lord returning as a "thief in the night" and to correct incorrect thinking about the coming Antichrist, among writing about other important matters.[1]
Paul met with local disciples in Tyre for one week while the ship he was on was unloading in the city's port.
When Apostle Paul came to this city (Tyre), it was neither in the glorious state described in the prophecies of Ezekiel and Isaiah, (Ezekiel 26 - 27, Isaiah 23) when "its merchants were princes, and its traffickers the honorable of the earth," nor in the abject desolation in which it now fulfils those prophecies, being "a place to spread nets upon," and showing only the traces of its maritime supremacy in its ruined mole . . .
"In honor of its ancient greatness, the Romans gave it the name of a free city (a city which, though under Rome, was permitted to have their own laws plus other privileges like making their own coins); and it still commanded some commerce, for its manufactures of glass and purple were not yet decayed . . ." (ibid., section on Tyre).
Some of the brethren in Tyre, inspired by God, warned him to stay away of the dangers that awaited him in Jerusalem (Acts 21:4). The apostle would not be deterred, however, in his goal of reaching the city in time to keep the Day of Pentecost (20:16).
After a group of Tyre brethren, including women and children, prayed with him on the shore, Paul got back on his ship and left for the port city of Ptolemais (21:5 - 7).
So Paul was still keeping the feasts then.
Just looking at the cultural surroundings we don't see in the bible.
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Paul met with local disciples in Tyre for one week while the ship he was on was unloading in the city's port.
When Apostle Paul came to this city (Tyre), it was neither in the glorious state described in the prophecies of Ezekiel and Isaiah, (Ezekiel 26 - 27, Isaiah 23) when "its merchants were princes, and its traffickers the honorable of the earth," nor in the abject desolation in which it now fulfils those prophecies, being "a place to spread nets upon," and showing only the traces of its maritime supremacy in its ruined mole . . .
"In honor of its ancient greatness, the Romans gave it the name of a free city (a city which, though under Rome, was permitted to have their own laws plus other privileges like making their own coins); and it still commanded some commerce, for its manufactures of glass and purple were not yet decayed . . ." (ibid., section on Tyre).
Some of the brethren in Tyre, inspired by God, warned him to stay away of the dangers that awaited him in Jerusalem (Acts 21:4). The apostle would not be deterred, however, in his goal of reaching the city in time to keep the Day of Pentecost (20:16).
After a group of Tyre brethren, including women and children, prayed with him on the shore, Paul got back on his ship and left for the port city of Ptolemais (21:5 - 7).
So Paul was still keeping the feasts then.
Just looking at the cultural surroundings we don't see in the bible.
Hugs