Derbe

Derbe was a city in the region of Lycaonia, in the south-central part of Asia Minor. It is gathered under four references — Paul's flight to Derbe and his return there from Lystra (Ac 14:6, 14:20), the second-journey visit with Silas where Paul met Timothy's home territory (Ac 16:1), and the note that Gaius came from Derbe (Ac 20:4). Every one of those references sits in the book of Acts, and the present scope of the UPDV does not include Acts. As a result, this page has no UPDV wording to quote; the entry stands as a placeholder for the topic until Acts enters the corpus.

Lycaonian city in Paul's first and second journeys

Derbe figures as a refuge city Paul reaches with Barnabas after being driven from Iconium and stoned at Lystra (Ac 14:6, 14:20), and again as a stop on the second journey with Silas, just before the meeting with Timothy at Lystra (Ac 16:1). The home of Gaius, one of Paul's traveling companions in the offering delegation, is also located there (Ac 20:4). UPDV does not currently render any of these verses, so no quoted text is available within the present scope.

Status of this entry

No topical reference for Derbe falls within the in-scope portion of UPDV. The page is therefore a deliberate gap notice rather than a synthesis: the topic exists in the topical tradition, but the witness is entirely in Acts and so cannot be quoted here without overstepping the corpus. Readers wanting the underlying narrative should consult another translation for Acts; if and when UPDV's coverage of Acts is added, this page can be filled in from those verses directly.