People
Priscilla in Acts 18
prih-SIL-uh
This person shows up in Acts 18:2: “He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real person in a real place.
Acts 18:2
“He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,”
What kids can learn
When you hear priscilla in Acts, remember the sentence around it. God put this person in the story on purpose.
Read Acts 18:2 again tomorrow and ask what the person is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Acts 18:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
HefoundacertainJewnamedAquila,amanofbyrace,whohadrecentlycomefromItaly,withhiswifebecauseClaudiushadcommandedalltheJewstodepartfromRome.Hecameto