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Consider this: Have you ever sat in a Sunday School class or Bible study where the lesson focused on someone named Sosthenes? Chances are, his name hasn’t come up—he’s mentioned only twice in the Bible, and most believers pass over him without a second thought. Yet, in those brief references, he holds surprising significance.

Intrigued by this overlooked figure, I began to ponder how easy it is, in our routine readings, to miss people like Sosthenes—those who linger at the edges of the narrative. My encounter with him happened during a quiet, early-morning reading of Acts. The text seemed ordinary until Acts 18:17 caught my eye: