Philemon

Philemon is the recipient of the Epistle to Philemon, which is a book of the Bible from the New Testament.

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He was probably an inhabitant of Colossae, and apparently a person of some note among within the Christian church there (Col. 4:9; Philemon 1:2). He appears to have become a believer throuugh the teaching of Paul. In the epistle, Paul calls him a "fellow-worker". He appears to have hosted the church, and was certainly wealthy enough to own at least one slave (the hapless Onesimus on whose behalf Paul writes the epistle.

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Epistle to Philemon: The Epistle to Philemon is a book of the Bible in the New Testament....

Bible: The Bible (sometimes The Book,Good Book, Word of God, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, "(the) books", plural of βιβλιον, biblion, "book", originally a diminutive of βιβλο...

Colossae: Colossae or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates, and was at one time of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size an...