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The Apostle Paul
Paul
Who was Paul?
Paul was an Apostle of Christ, but he did not begin as an apostle. He believed so much in Jewish laws that he thought that the christians were blaspheming against God.
Saul traveling to Damascus
Saul in Damascus
Saul was on his way to Damascus to throw christians into jail, when a bright light blinded him. Saul asks,"who are you?" A voice replies,"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting."
Saul's conversion
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything. In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Yes, Lord,” he answered. The Lord told him to ask for a man named Saul from Tarsus. Ananias first protested, but he went to Saul. He went to Saul and blessed him and something like fish scales fell from his eyes. He ate and got his strength back.
Paul
Saul changed his name to Paul. He went on different missionary journeys and wrote many letters and preached the word of the Lord.
Paul's first missionary journey
Paul went on three missionary journeys followed by a trip to Rome. His missionary journeys, most likely in the year AD 47, started in Syria and continued to Cyprus and Asia Minor.
Missionary Journey No.1
In the late Spring of 44 A.D. Paul and Barnabas become two of the apostles. From Antioch, the two apostles and John (also known as Mark) begin Paul's first missionary journey.They travel Seleucia then sail to Salamis, and preach the gospel there. They then cross the island by foot and arrive at Paphos.
Apostle Paul, Barnabas, and Mark them board a ship and sail to Perga. Mark then leaves the group and returns to Jerusalem. They leave Perga and travel to Antioch in Pisidia. They then go to Iconium and preach at a synagouge. After a conspiracy to stone them, they leave. In Lystra, Paul meets a man born crippled and never able to walk. He heals the man and the crowd thinks they are two of the greek gods. In a short time, Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrive in Lystra and succeed in turning people against the two evangelists. After being stoned, some people drag Paul's dead body out of the city. Some believers find his body and as they stand around it, he comes back to life!
Mark leaves the team
The next day he and Barnabas travel to Derbe. They preach the gospel in Derbe then retrace their steps through Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch in order to strengthen the brethren. From Antioch they travel to Perga and then to Attalia, where they catch a ship to sail back to where their missionary journey started. Paul and Barnabas stay in Antioch for almost three years, from 46 A.D. to 49 A.D
Paul's second Missionary journey
Missionary Journey No. 2
A year or two after completing their first missionary journey, Barnabas suggested that he and Paul revisit the churches they had planted. A disagreement arose over whether or not John Mark, who had left them on the first journey, should join them on this journey. Eventually Barnabas decided to take John Mark to Cyprus while Paul took Silas to modern-day Turkey.
Paul and Silas met Timothy, a young believer in Lystra. Paul decided to have Timothy, the son of a Greek man and a Jewish mother, circumcised to gain the trust and respect of the Jews in that area. The three men then continued to strengthen the faith in churches and the number of believers increased daily. Paul, Silas, and Timothy wanted to go to Asia to spread the gospel there, but the Holy Spirit prevented them. Finally in Troas, Paul received a vision of a man asking them to go into Macedonia (modern-day Greece).
Paul, Silas, and Timothy, now joined by Luke, sailed from Troas to Greece and made their way to Philippi. Paul cast many demons out form a slave girl. Paul and Silas were beaten and thrown in prison, but they continued to praise God from their jail cell. That night, God caused an earthquake to release all the prisoners, but none fled the jail. Because the prisoners stayed, Paul was able to share the gospel with the jailer who believed and was baptized.
In the morning, Paul and Silas were freed, but Paul refused to leave without a public apology for the way they had violated his rights as a Roman citizen. After this incident, Paul, Silas, and Timothy traveled to Thessalonica.
Paul preached in the synagogue in Thessalonica and some Jews believed as well as many Greeks, including some of the leading women. Unfortunately, the non-believing Jews formed a violent mob so Paul and Silas had to escape at night to Berea.
In Berea, Paul shared the gospel in the synagogue. The Bereans listened to Paul's teaching and carefully looked at the Scripture to check if his teaching was true. So, many in Berea believed the gospel message. Unfortunately, the non-believing Jews from Thessalonica arrived in Berea to stir up trouble, so Paul was sent off to sail to Athens by himself while Timothy and Silas stayed behind. After Athens he went to Corinth.
In Corinth, Paul met fellow Jews Aquila and Priscilla and decided to stay and work with them. Paul began his year and a half ministry in Corinth by teaching in the synagogue and was soon joined by Silas and Timothy. Unfortunately, the Corinthian Jews opposed Paul so he turned his attention to the Gentiles. Many Corinthian Gentiles believed and were baptized. Paul also received another vision from God encouraging him to continue preaching the gospel .
When it was time to return to Antioch in Syria, Paul first got his hair cut marking the end of a vow he had taken. Priscilla and Aquila accompanied Paul as he sailed to Ephesus and shared the gospel there. Priscilla and Aquila settled in Ephesus while Paul sailed on. He then made his way to his home church in Antioch in Syria.
Paul's third missionary journey
Missionary Journey No. 3
Paul’s third missionary journey begins in Acts 18. Paul spent some time at his home church in Syrian Antioch before going northwest over land again and traveling through Galatia and Phrygia in Asia Minor, visiting the churches in Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, and Pisidian Antioch which are all churches he established in his first missionary.
Apollos became Paul's powerful Christian teacher and at times rivalling the influence of Paul. Apollos traveled to Corinth in Achaia, and Paul arrived at Ephesus where he apparently met some of Apollos’s students.Paul spent three months teaching in the synagogue in Ephesus, reasoning from the Jewish Scriptures, but some in his audience not only rejected his message but they became abusive toward “the Way”
Despite the opposition in Ephesus, the Holy Spirit worked mightily through Paul, because he believed in him. Luke says that “extraordinary miracles” were being performed as people were being healed and evil spirits were being expelled.
After his extended stay in Ephesus, Paul realized that the Holy Spirit was leading him to travel on. Continuing his third missionary journey, Paul sent Timothy and Erastus ahead to Macedonia (Acts 19:21–22). But before Paul left, a silversmith named Demetrius, who made shrines of Artemis and resented the decrease in business he’d seen since Paul’s arrival, gathered other workmen and started a riot. Eventually, the town clerk arrived and dispersed the crowd, telling them that, if they had something against Paul, they should bring him to court
Paul left the town quietly. Paul had planned to board a ship in Corinth and set sail for Jerusalem via Syria, but he discovered that some Jews were plotting to waylay him on the voyage, so he returned to Macedonia by land. Paul made the most of his short stay in Troas. On Sunday when the believers met, Paul preached long into the night. A young man named Eutychus sat on a windowsill of the third-story room. About midnight, he fell asleep and fell out the window to the ground below. Eutychus was declared dead, but Paul raised him, served communion, and resumed speaking until daylight.
Instead of traveling inland to visit the established churches of Asia Minor or sailing more directly to Jerusalem, Paul continued his third missionary journey by taking a coastal route. Paul walked to Assos, while the rest of the party sailed to that port and picked Paul up there. Then they all traveled to Mitylene, Trogyllium, and Miletus, along the southwest coast of Asia Minor (Acts 20:13–15).
Paul bypassed Ephesus because he knew if he stopped there he’d be kept longer than he liked, and he wanted to reach Jerusalem by Pentecost (verse 16). Paul asked the Ephesian elders to meet him in Miletus, and they did. Paul prayed with them, encouraged them, warned them against false teachers, and predicted the hardships he would face in Jerusalem (verses 17–35). After tearful good-byes, the Ephesian elders saw Paul to the ship (verses 36–38).
Paul and his entourage sailed to Patara, then to Tyre in Syria, where they stayed a week. The disciples there begged Paul, for his own safety, not to go to Jerusalem. But he sailed on, stopping briefly in Ptolemais before landing in Caesarea and staying with Philip the evangelist. While in Caesarea, the prophet Agabus declared that Paul would be imprisoned if he went to Jerusalem, but Paul was resolute in completing his mission. After several days, a group escorted Paul to Jerusalem and to the home of Mnason, who hosted Paul and his companions. Thus Paul’s third missionary journey came to an end.
Journey to Rome
His fourth journey was from Jerusalem to Rome. He made this journey as a prisoner. Between the third missionary journey and the journey to Rome, Paul is in Jerusalem and Caesarea.
The Journey to Rome
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The book of Acts devotes six chapters to this troubled prelude to Paul's journey to Italy, and another two chapters to the journey itself.