Paul's Road

Tarsus is his city (Acts 22:3). Jerusalem is where he studied, and where he approved the killing of Stephen (Acts 7:58, Acts 22:3). The road to Damascus is where he is stopped (Acts 9:1-9). He is baptized in Damascus. Galatians says he went away to Arabia and returned to Damascus before he saw the apostles (Galatians 1:17). Acts tells the Damascus preaching and the escape in a basket, and does not narrate Arabia (Acts 9:23-25). Both belong. Arabia is a region, not a city on this map.

After three years he goes to Jerusalem and stays with Peter fifteen days. He sees James the Lord's brother. Then Syria and Cilicia (Galatians 1:18-21). Barnabas finds him in Tarsus and brings him to Antioch (Acts 11:25-26). They carry relief to Jerusalem (Acts 11:29-30). Whether that visit is the same as Galatians 2's private visit is one of the chronology arguments. This note does not need to flatten it. He is in Antioch when the Spirit sets apart Barnabas and Saul (Acts 13:1-3).

First journey. Seleucia, Salamis on Cyprus, Paphos. Perga in Pamphylia, where John Mark leaves. Pisidian Antioch. Iconium. Lystra, where they stone Paul. Derbe. Then back through the same towns, and home to Antioch. The argument with people from Judea about circumcision is there (Acts 13:4 through Acts 14:28, Acts 15:1-2).

Jerusalem for the meeting in Acts 15. Then Antioch. Paul and Barnabas split over John Mark. Paul takes Silas.

Second journey. Syria and Cilicia. Derbe and Lystra, where Timothy joins. Through the Phrygian and Galatian region. Troas, the vision of a man of Macedonia. Neapolis to Philippi. Prison, and the jailer. Thessalonica. Berea. Athens. Corinth, a year and six months, Aquila and Priscilla, Gallio. Ephesus, briefly. Caesarea, up to Jerusalem to greet the church, down to Antioch (Acts 15:36 through Acts 18:22).

Third journey. Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening disciples. Ephesus, the hall of Tyrannus, about three years if you include his own "three years" to the Ephesian elders (Acts 20:31). The riot. Macedonia. Three months in Greece. A plot, so he returns through Macedonia. Troas, the night he talks until midnight. Assos, Mitylene, Samos, Miletus, the elders from Ephesus. Cos, Rhodes, Patara. Tyre, Ptolemais, Caesarea, Philip the evangelist, Agabus. Up to Jerusalem (Acts 18:23 through Acts 21:17).

Arrest in the temple. Hearings. Caesarea, two years under Felix, then Festus. Appeal to Caesar. The voyage: Sidon, Myra, Fair Havens on Crete, the storm, Malta, Syracuse, Rhegium, Puteoli, the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns, Rome. Two years in his own rented house (Acts 21:27 through Acts 28:31).

Acts ends. 2 Timothy, if it is his last letter, expects the end and says Luke is with him and Mark is useful, and asks for the cloak he left at Troas (2 Timothy 4:6-13). A later memory says he was beheaded at Rome under Nero. The New Testament does not narrate the blade.

The letters that can be sat on this road are UnrollThe Letters in Their Years.