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Bible Maps - Paul's Second Missionary Journey

Paul travels through Asia Minor to Greece.
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The Cilician Plain and Tar-sus. <br/>Around 67 B.C. the Romans took control of the Cilician plain and made Tarsus the capital. Around A.D. 5 the apostle Paul was born in Tarsus, which he later de-scribed as ‘no ordinary city’ (Acts 21:39). Less than 90 miles (144 km) to the southwest lay Antioch, one of the largest cities of the Roman Empire and the place where believers were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). – Slide 1
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Paul’s Second Missionary Journey. <br/>In Lystra, Paul and Timothy met a young believer named Timothy, who began travel-ing with them (Acts 16:1-3). At Troas in northwest Tur-key, Paul saw a vision of a man from Macedonia beg-ging them to come and help them, so he and his team left immediately for Neapolis (Acts 16:9-11). From there they travelled to Philippi and Thessalonica, where they established new churches despite continued persecu-tion. They travelled on to Athens, where Paul spoke about Jesus to a group of philosophers at the Areopa-gus. From there Paul and Silas travelled to Corinth, where he met Aquila and Priscilla, and he ministered in Corinth for a year and a half (Acts 18:11). After this Paul set out for Antioch from Cenchrea, stopping at Ephesus along the way. – Slide 2
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Paul’s Travels in Western Anatolia. <br/>During his second and third missionary journeys (Acts 15-21), the apostle Paul travelled extensively throughout western Anatolia, most of which formed the Roman province of Asia. – Slide 3
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Black Sea Coasts. <br/>The land of Pontus along the southern shore of the Black Sea was noted as one of the places from which Jews had come when Peter delivered his powerful sermon during the festival of Pentecost in Jerusalem (Acts 2:9). Pon-tus was likewise listed among the addressees of Peter’s first letter (1 Peter 1:1), and it was the home-land of Aquila, a coworker of Paul (Acts 18:2). The region of Bithynia, immedi-ately west of Pontus, was noted as one of the ad-dressees of Peter’s first letter as well, and Paul tried to enter this region during his second mission-ary journey, but the Spirit of Jesus prevented him from doing so (Acts 16:7). – Slide 4
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Troas. <br/>While the apostle Paul was at Troas he saw a vision of a man from Macedonia calling for to him for help, so Paul and his companions crossed into Europe with the gospel and established a church at Philippi (Acts 16:6-12). On a later missionary journey Paul and his companions returned to Troas from Macedonia, and as Paul was preaching late into the night a young man fell out of a window and was taken up dead, but Paul came to his aid, and the young man was returned to his family alive again (Acts 20:1-12) – Slide 5
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Macedonia. The Romans built many reliable roads throughout their empire to greatly improve long-distance travel. One of these roads was called the Egnatian Way, and it passed through several towns in Macedonia visited by the apostle Paul in the New Testament as he established churches in Philippi and Thessalonica (Acts 16-17). – Slide 6
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Southern Greece. <br/>The apostle Paul travelled to southern Greece, visiting the renowned philosophical centre of Athens before moving on to Corinth and establishing a church there with the help of Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos (Acts 17:16-18:28). Corinth was a very prosperous city strategically located near the isthmus linking the southern peninsula to the mainland, giving it command over both land and sea travel in the region. – Slide 7
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Corinth. <br/>When Paul first visited the city during his second mis-sionary journey after speaking at Athens (Acts 18), he immediately found an audience with some of those attending the syna-gogue there. Paul also met Priscilla and Aquila there, who were Jewish tentmak-ers like himself. Around the time Paul left Corinth for Syria, a man named Apol-los moved to Corinth from Ephesus and became an influential leader in the church. Paul wrote at least two letters to the Corinthi-ans, and the moral chal-lenges the believers faced there attest to the very pagan culture of the city of Corinth (1 Corinthians 5;1-13; 6:12-20; 8:1-13; 10:14-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18). – Slide 8
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Ephesus. <br/>Ephesus had become one of the largest and most prestigious cities of the Roman Empire, but the progressive decline of its value as a port forced it to depend increasingly on income generated from pilgrims to the temple of Artemis. Paul visited Ephesus on the return leg of his second Missionary trip promising to return again if it was God's will. – Slide 9
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