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I thought he went on three missionary journeys! Then he was imprisoned in Palestine for a couple years, transported under guard via ship to Rome a journey that included a shipwreck on Malta , and spent a couple more years under house arrest in Rome. That is where the book of Acts ends, but it is not the end of the story. There are enough biblical and historical hints floating around to allow us to reconstruct some of what happened next.
There are good reasons for every item included below. The order , however, is somewhat uncertain. Included in the journey is a mission to Spain, ministry on the island of Crete, ministry in Ephesus, stops at Miletus, Troas, various cities in Macedonia, Corinth, and probably Nicopolis. During his time in prison, Paul was visited by Onesiphorus 2 Timothy 1: Paul was aided by the physician Luke, who sought to attend to his needs 2 Timothy 4: Paul is believed to have been beheaded—rather than thrown to the wild beasts or killed in some other inhumane way—because he was a Roman citizen.
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He is the director of Bible Fluency: Before coming to Talbot, Dr. He has a heart for God and ministry, has written many worship songs, and has served as a worship pastor in local church ministry. Browse Becoming Biola Bravo! Paul appeared before Nero some time during his house arrest in Rome. God had promised Paul in a vision in Acts Paul was released by Nero. You see Paul expecting to be released in Philemon 22, and perhaps in Philippians 1: Paul had planned to visit Philemon Philemon But since Colossae was the opposite direction from Spain, and since we have some reason to believe that Paul traveled to Spain right after Rome, my guess is that Paul decided to forgo the visit to Philemon until after he completed his mission to Spain.
So Paul traveled to Spain. Such a ministry trip had been part of his original plan way back when he wrote Romans five or more years before Romans It is far better from the standpoint of historiography to assume that Paul did in fact travel to Spain and minister there.
In Gal 1 he speaks of a time denoted as "my earlier life in Judaism" 1: In Phil 3 he describes what he was doing after that revelation as "straining forward to what lies ahead" 3. The resurrection of the righteous dead by God was a belief that Paul as a Pharisee must have held. Resurrection, however, had become for him, once "Christ Jesus had made [Paul] his own" 3: As he announced that faith far and wide, Paul unabashedly set forth that he was "not ashamed of the gospel … the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek" Rom 1: In Paul's Philippian imagery of pressing on and straining toward completion, expressed as well in Gal 2: It is possible that this language of progressing toward a goal was among Paul's most frequently used and best remembered metaphors for himself since the deutero-Pauline writer of 2 Tim 4: Yet Paul's own imagery more vividly conveys a sense of relentless effort in evangelization, even when sidetracked by opposition, his own sickness, disputes with other co-religionists and co-workers, and imprisonment.
Various chronologies compete in dating the events in Paul's life see Roetzel, — In spite of the widespread disagreement about timing, the sequence of activity in Paul's cursus vitae is generally similar, a major exception being the question of whether the Jerusalem conference see jerusalem, council of preceded or followed the travels described in Acts Brown, — ; Fitzmyer, — ; cf.
Murphy-O'Connor, 1 — After Damascus Gal 1: Following his Damascus Road experience c. Paul returned to Damascus, remaining there for three years Gal 1: Paul proceeded to Jerusalem c. Paul's perspective is that he was unknown by sight to the churches of Judea at this time Gal 1: Paul partially confirms the latter element of the Acts narrative in his statement that following this time in Jerusalem he "went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia … proclaiming the faith" Gal 1: In the absence of further information from Paul himself concerning the next five years c.
Barnabas went to Tarsus and recruited Paul to minister in the church at Antioch, where he did so for a year c. This Jerusalem visit, which Acts places about five years after Paul's prior one, is hard to reconcile with Paul's statement in Gal 2: Proclaiming the Gospel among the Gentiles Gal 2: The Antiochene believers therefore "laid their hands on them" John Mark see mark, evangelist, st. Because Barnabas's name is mentioned before Paul's throughout the Acts narrative up to this point, Barnabas is assumed to have been the senior partner Daniels, Barnabas, Paul, and John Mark sailed from the seaport of Seleucia 16 miles west of Antioch to Salamis in Cyprus, and thence went to the extreme west of the island to the capital city of Paphos.
There they contended with a villainous magician, Elymas, and after temporarily blinding him, converted the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus.
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In Acts more prominence is from this point on accorded to Paul. The crowds are also said to have recognized Paul as "the chief speaker" Acts does not specify John Mark's reasons but does imply that Paul considered this a desertion Because of the opposition they encountered in the synagogues, both said, "We are now turning to the Gentiles" This course has come to be called the "first journey" While Paul's undisputed letters give no information about such a journey, he mentions in 2 Cor Further correlation is found in Gal 2: Paul in Jerusalem Gal 2: In the Acts narrative, Paul and Barnabas are said to have returned to Antioch only to encounter "no small dissension and debate" The controversy concerned the conversion of Gentiles and the Mosaic requirement of circumcision.
Paul, Barnabas, and others were appointed to go to Jerusalem to discuss this with the apostles and elders The resulting meeting, which has come to be called the Council of Jerusalem and dated c. Scholarship has widely, though by no means unanimously, judged Paul's account in Gal 2: In Paul's perception the meeting resulted with recognition from the leaders, the "acknowledged pillars" Gal 2: Acts 15 correlates with the decision for non-imposition of circumcision upon the Gentiles but describes a letter sent from Jerusalem to Antioch stipulating that believers of Gentile origin in Syria and Cilicia were to observe certain food laws.
Paul himself expresses no knowledge of this letter and certainly promotes no stipulations concerning food eaten by believers in his later ministry see e. The accounts of the Jerusalem conference in both Gal and Acts agree that upon its close Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch. What is strikingly missing from Acts, yet very prominent in Paul's narrative in Gal 2: At issue, at least from Paul's perspective, which is the only one available to us, was Peter's inconsistency in sometimes eating with Gentile believers and at other times, notably when members of the Jerusalem circumcision party were present, eating only with the Jewish Christians.
While it is difficult to reconstruct all the dynamics Paul saw at work in this event, it is widely thought that he must have lost the battle about food laws at Antioch since, from that time on, Antioch's role as the base of his missionary operations receded Brown, En Route to Illyricum Rom The "Second" and "Third" Journeys.
Paul’s 4th Missionary Journey (And I Don’t Mean His Trip to Rome)
The missionary activity of Paul described in Acts Paul himself subsumes his activities of these years into a general description covering all of his evangelizing. He envisioned an arc extending from Judea north and west around the Mediterranean, reaching to the Dalmatian coast on the northeastern shores of the Adriatic Sea. Paul alludes to this in writing to the churches of Rome c. He comments that up to that time in his life "from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum I have finished preaching the gospel of Christ" Rom This could have been meant literally, or it may have been Paul's way of saying that he had evangelized from East to West, since neither the epistles nor Acts indicate that he had actually made it to Illyricum by Either way, Paul perceived that he had covered a vast amount of territory, and both his own letters and Acts While Paul does not tell of his next move after the confrontation over table fellowship with Peter and Barnabas , Acts In agreeing, Barnabas suggested enlisting John Mark again, but Paul refused to take someone who had not been dependable.
Thus, he and Barnabas parted company. The tenor of this information from Acts The two went through Syria and Cilicia to the churches of southeastern Asia Minor that Paul and Barnabas had previously established. In Lystra Paul converted Timothy, who then joined him and Silas as they went north "through the region of Phrygia and Galatia" Acts A choice to make haste, or a divine restriction they felt imposed upon them, or some other reason to not missionize in certain areas they traversed may be reflected in Paul's later comment to the Galatians: From Troas, via the island of Samothrace, Paul and his co-workers crossed over to Macedonia.
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Reaching the port of Neapolis, they went into the nearby city of Philippi, and thence, following the Egnatian Way Via Egnatia , to Amphipolis, Apollonia, and Thessalonica. If Paul had continued west along this major Roman route as far as the Adriatic coast at Dyrrhachium, he would have been just south of the border of Illyricum. Nothing in his own letters nor in Acts, however, suggests this extended journey west either at this point nor later in his travels see below when he retraced his Egnatian route, although this would have been Paul's obvious route to Illyricum.
The Acts' traditions instead indicate that Paul departed from the Egnatian Way at Thessalonica and went southwest to Beroea.