100 Reasons to Believe New Testament History
30. City Gate in Philippi Near a River
Acts 16:13, written in first person, reads,
“And on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made;”
French archaeologists working in Philippi from 1914 to 1938 uncovered the old Roman road, which ran through the town. At the Norwest edge of the town was discovered the foundations of a great arched gateway through which the road passed. A little more than a mile to the west of the city, the river Gangites joins the road at only one place. The topography described here in Acts 16 appears entirely accurate. J.A. Thompson confidently states,
“We judge that we have here the exact spot where the gospel was first proclaimed in Europe.” A
30. City Gate in Philippi Near a River - Notes and References
A. J.A. Thompson, “The Bible and Archaeology”, Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1962, pp. 385-386