THE LIFE OF PAUL: "Apostle to the Goyim (Gentiles)"

EVENT

Year  AD

(all dates are approximate)    

Born at Tarsus (in modern Turkey) sometime between 7 and 12 AD of Jewish parents who are Roman citizens and traced their ancestry to the tribe of Benjamin (Romans 11:1; Philippians 3:5)

 

10?

Arrival in Jerusalem to study with Gamaliel (Acts 22:3)

30

 

Sent as an officer of the Sanhedrin to arrest Christians in Damascus & conversion (Acts 9; 22:6-16; 26:12-18)         

36

3 year sojourn in Arabia and mission to Damascus (Galatians 1:17)     

36-39

Visit to Jerusalem (Galatians 1:18)         

39

Sojourn in Tarsus (Acts 9:30)

?

Arrival in Antioch in Syria to serve the Christian community (Acts 11:25)

43-44

 

1st Missionary Journey (Acts 13-14);      name change to Latin "Paulus"      

45-49

 

Visit to Jerusalem for the 1st Great Council of the Church (Acts 15)

49-50

2nd Missionary Journey (Acts 15:36-18:21):

            -at Athens & Corinth (Greece); meets Roman governor Gallio*

            -wrote 1 &2 Thessalonians

50-52

50?52

 

51-52

3rd Missionary Journey (Acts 18:23-21:14)

            -visited Phrygia & Galatia

            -at Ephesus (Turkey)    

            -wrote Galatians

            -wrote 1 Corinthians

            -mission to Macedonia

            -wrote 2 Corinthians     

            -at Corinth (Greece)

            -wrote letter to the Romans

53-58

53

54-57

54

54

57

57?58

57-58

57/58

Return to Jerusalem (Acts 21:15-23:22)

Spring of 58

*Hearing with Roman Governor Felix / 2 year imprisonment at Caesarea.  Hearing with Governor Festus at Caesarea (Acts 24-25)   

58-60

4th Journey: Voyage to Rome & shipwreck off the coast of Malta (Acts 27)

60?61

Paul's first imprisoned in Rome (Acts 28)

            -wrote letters to the churches at  Colossus, Philemon, Ephesus, Philippi

61-63

*Voyage to the east and the west (Spain? Voyage to Britain?) letters 1 Timothy & Titus

63-67

Final Roman captivity: 2 Timothy letter

67

Martyrdom by beheading  

67

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