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Person

Phebe

Female

A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “a succourer of many, and of myself also” (Rom. 16:1, 2).

Key verses

Romans 16:1
I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,