Aristarchus

Mentioned AD 58–64 traditional (Jones)

Best ruler, native of Thessalonica (Acts 20:4), a companion of Paul (Acts 19:29; 27:2). He was Paul’s “fellow-prisoner” at Rome (Col. 4:10; Philemon 1:24).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Tagged in: 5 verses

Mentioned in the era of the New Testament, 4 BC to AD 100.
Named in the same verses as John, Barnabas, Demas, Gaius, Gaius, Luke, Paul, and Secundus.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

8 events in which Aristarchus takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

AD 50Third Missionary JourneyActs 18:24–20:16
AD 53Riot in EphesusActs 19:23-41
AD 54Mission to Macedonia and GreeceActs 20:1-6
AD 56Journey to Rome beginsActs 27:1-12
AD 56Paul's Journey to RomeActs 27:1–28:31
AD 57Paul is shipwrecked by a stormActs 27:13-44
AD 57Paul stays at MaltaActs 28:1-10
AD 57Paul arrives at RomeActs 28:11-16

Places

Places named in the same verses as Aristarchus, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

likely location: Adramyttium1
location not graded: Asia1
likely location: Derbe1
likely location: Thessalonica1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 33–89, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

5 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Acts3
Colossians1
Philemon1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Aristarchus 5
KJV	Aristarchus 5
ASV	Aristarchus 5

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 5 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Acts3 verses

19:29
Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.
20:4
Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
27:2
We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

Colossians1 verse

4:10
My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you greetings, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have already received instructions about him: If he comes to you, welcome him.

Philemon1 verse

1:24
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.