The Legacy of PaulThe Legacy of PaulPaul’s JourneysPaul’s Journeys

Agenda:

• Definitions• Paul’s Immediate Response to Call• First Missionary Journey• Second Missionary Journey• Third Missionary Journey• Journey Between Prisons (Fourth Missionary Journey)• Controversy• Timeline• Resources

• Missionary:

• Mitto (Latin) = Apostello (Greek) = To Send

• Journey:

• Journée (Old French) = Day’s Work or Travel

Definitions:

Immediate Response to Call:

• Arabia (33CE):• Galatians 1:17

• “I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.”

• Jerusalem (36CE):• Cephas (Peter)• James (Jesus’ brother)

First Missionary Journey46-48CE, Acts 13-14:• Cypress• Antioch of Pisidia• Iconium• Lystra• Derbe

Second Missionary Journey49-52CE, Acts 15-18:• Syria and Celicia revisiting churches of first missionary journey• Philippi• Thessalonica• Berea• Athens

Third Missionary Journey53-58CE, Acts 19-26:• Ephesus• Troas• Miletus• Tyre• Ptolemais• Caesarea• Jerusalem

Journey Between Prisons60CE, Acts 27-28:• Between Caesarea and Rome• Shipwreck on Malta• Rome

Controversy:

Executed in Rome?• Eusebius of Caesarea (Roman

Historian, “Father of Church History”): • Peter and Paul executed under

Nero• “What do we need to say

concerning Paul, who preached the Gospel of Christ from Jerusalem to Illyricum, and afterwards suffered martyrdom in Rome under Nero? These facts are related by Origen in the third volume of his Commentary on Genesis.”

Church History, Eusebius, Book III

Traveled to Spain?• Pastorals (1 & 2 Timothy,

Titus) suggest this• Clement of Rome (Pope

Clement I):• “After preaching both in the east

and west, he [Paul] gained the illustrious reputation due to his faith, having taught righteousness to the whole world, and come to the extreme limit of the west, and suffered martyrdom under the prefects.”

Epistle to Corinthians, Chapter 5

Resources:

• Galatians• Acts• Church History, by Eusebius• First Epistle to Corinthians, by Pope Clement I• Journeys of Paul Board game!

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