Category: Life of Paul

After leaving Philippi, Luke tells us, in Acts 17:1-15, that Paul, Silas, Timothy (and presumably) Luke went on to Thessalonica after leaving Philippi. "Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews." Downloaded from https://www.knowingthebible.net/bible-maps While there was apparently no synagogue in Philippi (which [...]

We are following Paul in his second missionary journey. He visited the Galatian churches and then traveled to Troas where he saw a vision directing him to cross the Aegean Sea to Macedonia. This post will focus on the events that happened at his first major destination - Philippi. Luke picks up the story in [...]

After the council meeting in Jerusalem that resulted in the letter from the Jerusalem church leaders to Gentile believers, Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch in Syria accompanied by Judas and Silas. They all remained in Antioch for an indefinite period of time. Then Luke tells us in Acts 15:36-41, "And after some days Paul [...]

Before I begin this post on the Life of Paul, I want to mention that I went back to the three previous "Paul" posts and edited them to include episodes from a new series I recently found on Right Now Media. I'll be referring to these some in future posts, but I wanted to make [...]

At the end of the last post, Paul and Barnabas had returned to Antioch, the place from which they had been commissioned and sent on their missionary journey. Acts 14:27-28 says, "And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a [...]