Kolose 1:1--2:23

Epafras : a man who was a fellow laborer with Paul

Kolose : a town in Phrygia near Laodicea and Hierapolis, 200 km east of Ephesus

Laodikia : residents of the town of Laodicea
(37° 46´, 29° 3´)

Timotius : a young man of Lystra who travelled with Paul and to whom two epistles were addressed

wilayah bangsa-bangsa lain : a non-Jewish person