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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Derbe
Paul and Barnabas fled here from Lystra after Paul was stoned, and Paul came back later. It was a small town in the Lycaonian highlands near modern Karaman, and the hometown of Gaius. An inscription found in 1956 at Kerti Höyük fixed the site.
Paul and Barnabas fled here from Lystra after Paul was stoned, and Paul came back later. It was a small town in the Lycaonian highlands near modern Karaman, and the hometown of Gaius. An inscription found in 1956 at Kerti Höyük fixed the site.
Derbe was a small town in the Lycaonian highlands of Asia Minor, near modern Karaman in Turkey. Paul and Barnabas fled there from Lystra during the first missionary journey after being stoned, and Paul revisited it later; it was the hometown of his traveling companion Gaius. Its exact site was uncertain until 1956, when an inscription dated to AD 157 found at the mound of Kerti Höyük identified it as Derbe, a location now widely accepted by archaeologists.
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