Addendum

.... In spite of the case that can be made by reading between the lines, some may assert that the events we’ve described in Amphipolis never happened, simply because the Bible never recorded them directly. "If Paul had ministered at Amphipolis, good or bad," they might claim, "the Bible would have mentioned it openly."

. " .... In response, I would point to the example of the Galatian outreach in Acts 16:6. The Bible merely stated that the apostles had 'gone through' the region; but we later discover, by the Epistle to the Galatians, that Paul had stayed long enough to actually found a church while he was there. He mentioned the Galatian church again, in passing, in 1 Corinthians 16:1 (which, curiously enough, also had to do with giving).

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.... I argue that if so much ministry could occur in Galatia within the scope of such a brief mention, then the same could have occured as they 'passed through' Amphipolis, though further Scriptural collaboration needed to be shown, and now has been (Acts 17:1).

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.... Remember that if Paul’s intention was to leave the controversy behind him, it could not have been in his best interest to record those event in detail, which would simply have served to bring them along with him. And had he recorded them in detail . . . what effect might those passages have played in the church throughout the ages?

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