Place · Asia Minor · modern Northwestern Turkey

Bithynia

Bithynia was a region in Asia Minor, mentioned in the New Testament as a place where the Apostle Paul was forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach (Acts 16:7).

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Where Bithynia appears

2 passages across 2 books.

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Passages set in Bithynia

1Pet 1:1 — Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Acts 16:7 — After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.