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Map of St. Paul's missionary journeys The author of Acts arranges Paul's travels into three separate journeys. The first journey, [ 112 ] for which Paul and Barnabas were commissioned by the Antioch community, [ 113 ] and led initially by Barnabas, [ note 5 ] took Barnabas and Paul from Antioch to Cyprus then into southern Asia Minor, and ...
Map of Antiochia in Roman and early Byzantine times. This section opens the account of Paul's first missionary journey (Acts 13:1-14:28) which starts with a deliberate and prayerful step of the church in Antioch, a young congregation established by those who had been scattered from persecution in Jerusalem (Acts 11:20–26) and has grown into an active missionary church. [3]
From Derbe, Paul and Barnabas began the journey back to Antioch, Pisidia, while consolidation of the newly planted churches along the way: 'strengthening the soul and encouraging believers to remain in the faith (verse 22) in person as Paul later does with his letters (cf. 1 Thessalonians 2:14—16; 3:2—4). [7]
The narrative follows Paul's journey from Miletus, stopping in Tyre (verse 3), Ptolemais (verse 7), and Caesarea (verse 8), before heading to Jerusalem (verse 15), incorporating 'prophetic warnings' (verses 4, 11) and a 'solemn farewell' (verses 6, 14) to 'exemplify and reinforce the tone of Paul's address' in Acts 20:23 while presenting Paul ...
47 – Paul (also known as Saul of Tarsus) begins his first missionary journey to Western Anatolia, part of modern-day Turkey via Cyprus. [3] 50 – Council of Jerusalem on admitting Gentiles into the Church [3] 51 – Paul begins his second missionary journey, a trip that will take him through modern-day Turkey and on into Greece [4]
This was the door for Paul to bring the faith of Christ from Asia to Europe, and the cry, "Come over and help us," could be considered by Paul as a call from the whole western world. [ 16 ] Journey from Troas to Philippi (16:11-15)
Paul started his first missionary journey from Antioch and returned there. [5] [6] After the Jerusalem decree to the gentile converts in Antioch, Paul began his second missionary journey from Antioch. [7] His third journey also began there. Ignatius then served as bishop there for forty years until his martyrdom in 107 AD. [8] [full citation ...
Paul the Apostle visited here to preach the Christian gospel in 48 AD and again in 51 AD on his first and second missionary journeys, [7] initially coming back after persecution drove him away from Iconium. [8] The Sacrifice at Lystra by Raphael, 1515. St. Paul and St. Barnabus at Lystra by Willem de Poorter, 1636