After some time of this girl shouting and causing trouble, Paul finally cast the demon out of her, which then caused the crowds to stir up against them and led to their imprisonment. In the night, however, an angel of the Lord came and set them free, and as a result, the jailer was saved. They went on to travel through Thessalonica, Brea, Athens, Corinth, and Ephesus, then to Jerusalem and finally back to Antioch for a short time. During his journeys, he went to the synagogues in every city and reasoned with the Jews.
In chapter 17, Paul begins reasoning with the Greek philosophers, speaking to them in the way that they were familiar with and would receive which led to the conversion of many Greek philosophers. Paul made a stop in Corinth, then Ephesus, and then made his way back to Antioch. The Book of Acts tells us that he spent some time there before setting out for his third journey. While he was traveling from country to country on his second missionary journey, Paul wrote 1st and 2nd Thessalonians.
He wrote this letter to the church of Thessalonica because he had to leave them in the midst of persecution and was not there to walk through it with them.
The first letter was to urge them on through the persecution, and the second letter was addressing fears of having already missed the second coming of Christ. After his visit to Antioch, Paul traveled again to the region of Galatia and Phrygia, with the intent of strengthening his brothers and sisters in Christ.
His third missionary journey lasted from 53 to 57 A. Acts tells us that he spent a significant portion of his time in Ephesus, about years. And while he was there he encountered some disciples who had not heard the full Gospel message or the Holy Spirit.
When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power. In response to this great revival, a riot broke out in the city against Paul because their way of life was being threatened by the Gospel. A silversmith who made shrines of Artemis was angered because of his loss of business, so he stirred up the city into a state of rage and confusion. It took several hours before the city clerk was able to quiet them down. Paul then met with the disciples in Ephesus and encouraged them, said goodbye, and left for Macedonia, accompanied by Sopaterm Aristarchus, Secundus, Galius, Timothy, Tychicus, and Trophimus.
They visited the churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea before he made his way to Corinth after a short time there, Paul sought to go back to Syria but was stopped short when he discovered a plot against his life. Paul then retraced his steps back through Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea, stopping in Troas where he stayed for seven days. Led by the Holy Spirit to go to Jerusalem, and eager to be there for Pentecost, Paul bypassed Ephesus knowing that he would need to stay there longer than he had time, so he called for the Ephesian elders to come and meet him in Miletus.
This meeting was a difficult one for all the disciples and elders because Paul knew he was saying goodbye for the last time. When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him. What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship. In about 55 A. After Paul had received a prophecy that he would be persecuted in Jerusalem, the people whom he was staying with at Caeserea pleaded with him not to go, but Paul refused to stay. I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
While in Ephesus on his third trip, Paul wrote 1st and 2nd Corinthians in about A. After Paul arrived in Jerusalem, he was quickly met by men who sought to destroy him. He was beaten, falsely accused, imprisoned, transferred from one place to the next, shipwrecked, held under house arrest, all in the course of around 4 years.
After Paul entered the Jewish Synagogue for the first time to teach, he was immediately met with opposition by the Jews. They incited a riot so violent and chaotic that Paul was arrested and carried off by two soldiers for his own safety.
Finally Festus planned to transfer Paul back to Jerusalem to be put on trial there, but before this happened, Paul appealed to Caesar and was transported by ship to Rome. But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city.
They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. Driven out of Pamphylia, Paul and Barnabas travelled to Iconium, an eastern city in the region of Phrygia. Iconium still exists today as the Turkish city of Konya.
Once again, Paul and Barnabas spoke in the synagogue, where Jews and Greeks alike accepted the gospel. As support for Paul and Barnabas grew, so did the opposition they faced, and eventually, they became aware of a plot to abuse and stone them.
So they left. Fleeing the threat in Iconium, Paul and Barnabas left Phrygia altogether and travelled to Lystra, a city in the province of Lycaonia. Here, Paul healed a man who was lame. The locals who witnessed this miracle thought Paul and Barnabas were gods in human form, calling Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes.
The priest from the temple of Zeus brought bulls and wreaths to offer sacrifices to them. Paul and Barnabas attempted to redirect their praise to God, but struggled to keep the crowds from offering sacrifices to them.
They riled up the crowds and convinced them to stone Paul. Believing he was dead, they dragged him outside the city. When the disciples gathered around him, Paul got up and went back inside the city. Then Paul and Barnabas went to Derbe, another city in Lycaonia. In each city, they encouraged the believers there and strengthened their faith, as they would continue doing on their future missionary journeys. They did, however, stop in a new Pamphylian city on the way: Attalia. Acts only mentions it in passing, but presumably, they established a community of believers there as well.
From there, they skipped a return voyage to the island of Cyprus and went straight back to Antioch the big one , where they told the church what happened on their journey. But Barnabas wanted to take John Mark—who had left them shortly into their previous journey. Paul was so opposed to the idea that they parted ways, initiating two separate missionary journeys. Barnabas took John Mark and went with the original plan, making their way back to the island of Cyprus.
Paul took a man named Silas and travelled through the provinces of Syria and Cilicia. At this time, Paul and Silas picked up a new companion: Timothy. The locals spoke highly of Timothy, and Paul wanted to bring him along even though he was half Greek, which meant local Jews would have a harder time accepting their message.
See Acts —4. Just north of Phrygia was the province of Galatia. Acts makes no mention of what happened here, but this is the province Paul wrote to in his letter to the Galatians. But by the time Paul wrote the Book of Galatians, Christians there were feeling pressure to obey the law particularly in regards to circumcision in order to be saved.
So they passed by Mysia and headed to the city of Troas. From Troas, Paul and his companions sailed across the Aegean Sea, making a pitstop on the island of Samothrace before landing in Neapolis and then traveling to Philippi. In Philippi, they spoke with women outside the city gate. One of them was a wealthy cloth dealer named Lydia.
Later, Paul, Silas, and the others were confronted by a spirit-possessed slave woman who could predict the future. Paul became so annoyed that he cast out the spirit. Her owners were furious, because they had been profiting off of her fortune telling.
So they turned the local magistrates against them, claiming Paul and Silas were stirring up trouble and trying to get Roman citizens to believe and do illegal things.
The authorities had Paul and Silas severely flogged and thrown in prison. Late at night, while they were worshiping, an earthquake shook the foundations of the prison, opened the doors, and freed the prisoners from their chains.
When the jailer awoke and saw the doors open, he prepared to kill himself. But Paul stopped him and assured him everyone was still in the prison. After listening to Paul and Silas share the gospel, the jailer believed in Jesus and had his whole household baptized. The next morning, the magistrates ordered Paul and Silas released.
Paul revealed that they were Roman citizens, who had just been beaten and imprisoned without trial, and the authorities became afraid. After passing through the Macedonian cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia, they arrived in Thessalonica. Since Thessalonica had a synagogue, Paul turned to his usual method—preaching the gospel on the Sabbath. Over the course of three weeks, he achieved the usual result—many Jews and Greeks alike embraced the gospel.
At night, the Thessalonian believers sent Paul and his companions away to the nearby city of Berea. Many Jews and Greeks became believers, but some agitators from Thessalonica heard Paul was in Berea, and they stirred up the crowds.
They then went to Iconium, Lystra and Derba. They then returned through Perga to Antioch. When they stopped in each city, they went to the synagogues to preach the coming of Jesus Christ, the messiah as the fulfillment of the promises made in the Old Testament.
Barnabas and Paul separated over a disagreement Acts 36 — Barnabas returned to Cyprus. From Jerusalem Paul went overland to revisit the churches in Lystra and Iconium. On this trip Paul had a dream calling him to bring the gospel to Macedonia.
He crossed the Aegean Sea to present day Greece. He traveled down the east coast of Greece. Stopping in Athens, Paul attempted to proclaim the gospel in Athens, where he was met with polite indifference Acts 16 — He then went to Corinth where he established a church that would give him both great joy and pain see 1 and 2 Corinthians.
Traveling back through Ephesus where his successful teaching won many to Christ to the annoyance of the local charm dealers Acts 21 — Paul returned to Antioch by way of Jerusalem. On his third and longest journey Paul went overland through present day Turkey then across the Aegean Sea to Greece. This was a pastoral journey revisiting the churches he had founded to strengthen them and give them further instruction.
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