My husband Aquila and I are tentmakers and teachers. I am a Jewess. We came out of Italy first to live at Corinth and then about a year and a half later we went to Ephesus. We left Rome at the time when Claudius expelled all Jews. Our home in the weaving sections of Corinth and Ephesus became a rendezvous for those wanting to know more about the new faith.


At Corinth, Paul, the tent-making missionary, lived and worked with us. Then when Paul departed from Corinth and embarked for Syria, we were with him. When we reached Ephesus, Paul left us there (Acts 18:18, 19). We asked him to stay longer, but he declined. Upon taking leave of us, he said, "I will return to you, if God wills." Then he set sail from Ephesus, landed at Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem, then down to Antioch, and from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. It was a year or more before Paul returned to us at Ephesus, and he found that we had established a well-organized congregation.


Not long after we came to Ephesus, I had the opportunity to teach  the eloquent and learned Apollos.  He was well versed in the Old Testament Scriptures. He had been introduced to the Christian religion first by John the Baptist, but he had only a superficial knowledge of the new Christian faith, and so we "expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly" (Acts 18:26).  


Historians, including Tertullias, have called me Prisca, but in the New Testament Scriptures, I am called PRISCILLA.

Copyright ©2004. Beverly Whitaker

List of Bible References

Acts 18:2, 18, 26 – Romans 16:3 – I Corinthians 16:19 – II Timothy 4:19