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1 Thessalonians

About Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians

Thessalonica was a large city in Macedonia. Macedonia included the north part of the country that we call Greece. It also included part of the country that we call North Macedonia. Thessalonica was an important port. Roads from several different directions joined there.
Paul went to Thessalonica to teach the people about Jesus Christ. He stayed there for only a short time, perhaps only a few weeks. Two other men, called Silas and Timothy, went there with him. As a result of what Paul taught them, some Jews in Thessalonica believed in Christ. Many other people who were not Jews ( Gentiles) also believed. But the Jews who refused to believe Christ caused a lot of trouble for Paul and his friends. Paul had to leave the city at night.
Paul, together with Silas and Timothy, wrote this letter in about the year AD 50 or AD 51. So this letter may be the first of Paul's letters that we have in the Bible. Paul wrote it only a few months after he had first taught the Christian message at Thessalonica. So he was writing to people who had been Christians for only a short time.
Paul teaches them about how they should do good, right things, to make God happy. And he teaches them about Jesus' return to the earth.

1:0Christ is a name for Jesus in the Greek language that means the same as Messiah in the Hebrew language. It means someone that God chose as a special king for his people.
1:0A Jew was someone who belonged to the Israelite kingdom of Judah. The name was first used at the time of their exile in Babylon. The people of Israel who still remain after that time are called Jews.