we know why they chose Macedonia as their next mission field, arriving in Philippi in the year 50. This too was a very different world for Paul. Founded in 356 BCE by Philip of Macedonia, the city had become the center of the gold-mining industry that had funded the campaigns of Philip’s son, Alexander the Great. The mines had long since been exhausted, but Philippi had become the chief Roman outpost on the Via Egnatia, the overland route linking the capital with the eastern provinces.
