City in Asia Minor where Paul visited on his third missionary journey. The first converts there were disciples of John the Baptist. He stayed there two years.

Traditionally understood in theology as the study of events surrounding the second coming of Christ, but also understood in a broader sense as the study of the stages of redemption

While Paul was preaching in Troas on his third journey, he fell asleep, fell out of a window and died. Later Paul miraculously revived him.