Apostle of the 70: Aquila

Aquila was a Jew from Pontus, who, with his wife Priscilla, is named in the New Testament as a tentmaker and a friend of Paul. They lived in Rome until the emperor Claudius ordered the Jews to leave, then moved to Corinth, where Paul stayed and worked with them (Acts 18). They went with him to Ephesus, where they taught the eloquent Apollos “the way of God more accurately”. Paul sends greetings to them in his letters to the Romans, the Corinthians and Timothy, and says that they risked their necks for him (Romans 16:3–5).

Tradition counts Aquila among the seventy apostles and says that he was made a bishop and preached in Asia and Achaia, and that he was killed by unbelievers.