Paul’s Second Missionary Journey

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Pauls Second Missionary Journey

• Acts 15-18

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Second Missionary Journey

• Philippi
• Thessalonica
• Beroea
• Athens
• Corinth

• Antioch
• Derbe and Lystra
• Troas

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AntiochSplit with Barnabas
The disagreement became so sharp that they
parted company Barnabas took Mark with him and
sailed away to Cyprus. But Paul chose Silas and
set out... He went through Syria and Cilicia,
strengthening the churches. (Acts 1539-41)
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Taurus Mountains
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Cilician Gates
Strategic passage through Taurus range
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Derbe and Lystra Paul and Barnabas Joined by
Timothy
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Derbe and Lystra
Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him and he
took him and circumcised him because of the Jews
who were in those places, for they all knew that
his father was a Greek. (Acts 163)
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Through Asia Minor to Troas
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Through Asia Minor to Troas
They went through the region of Phrygia and
Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit
to speak the word in AsiaThey attempted to go
into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not
allow them so they went down to Troas. (Acts
166-8)
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Excavations at Ancient TroyGateway between East
and West
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TroasThe Macedonian Call
During the night Paul had a vision there stood
a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying,
Come over to Macedonia and help
us. (Acts 169)
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Macedonia
We immediately tried to cross over to
Macedonia... We set sail from Troas and ... the
following day we came to Neapolis. (Acts
1610-11)

• First of the We-passages in Acts
• (Acts1610-17 205-2118 271-2816)
• Does this indicate
• Participation of author?
• Use of a first-person source?
• Vivid style often used in sea voyage accounts?

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Philippi
Pauls First Church in Europe
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Harbor of Neapolis
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Philippi
a leading city of the district of Macedonia
and a Roman colony. (Acts 1612)
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PhilippiForum and Christian Basilica
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Philippi

• Conversion of Lydia.
• Exorcism of slave-girl.
• Conversion of jailer.

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PhilippiPauls Prison?
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and
singing hymns to God... Suddenly there was an
earthquake and immediately all the doors were
opened and everyone's chains were
unfastened. (Acts 1625-26)
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Egnatian WayMajor Route between Rome and Eastern
Provinces
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Thessalonica
Recipient of Pauls Earliest Letter
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ThessalonicaArch of Galerius
Capital of Macedonia (305-Galerius made it
capital of Eastern Empire)
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Thessalonica

• Preached 3 weeks in synagogue.
• Forced out by Jewish opposition.
• Soon sent earliest preserved letter.

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Beroea

• Well received in synagogue.
• Forced out by opposition.
• Abandons Egnatian Way.

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Athens
Center of Classical Greek Culture
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AthensThe Acropolis
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AthensAerial View of Acropolis
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AthensParthenon
Paul was deeply distressed to see that the city
was full of idols. (Acts 1716)
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Athens Acropolis from the Agora
So he argued in the syn-agogue with the Jews and
the devout persons (Acts 1717)
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AthensRoman Agora
also in the marketplace every day with those
who happened to be there. (Acts 1717)
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Athens Colonnade in Stoa of Attalos
Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
debated with him (Acts 1718)
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Athens Colonnade in Stoa of Attalos
Some said, What does this babbler want to say?
Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of
foreign divinities. (Acts 1718)
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AthensAreopagus
So they took him and brought him to the
Areopagus. (Acts 1719)
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AthensAreopagus Sermon
I found an altar with the inscription, To an
unknown god. (Acts 1723)
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Corinth

• Strategically located
• Transportation center
• Commercial/ industrial city
• 18-month stay dominates Second Journey

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CorinthStrategic Transportation and Commercial
Center
Diolkos Ships and cargo were hauled across the
isthmus over this stone-paved sledway.
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CorinthModern Canal

• Begun by Nero in 67 with Jewish POW labor.
• Completed by French in 1881-93.

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Corinth Road from Port, Forum, and Acrocorinth
I came to Corinth in weakness and in fear and in
much trembling. (1 Cor. 23)
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CorinthTemple of Apollo
Cosmopolitan Syncretistic Notoriously immoral
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CorinthVotive Offerings to Asklepios
Many cultures and religions mingled.
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Corinth

• Worked as tentmaker with Aquila and Priscilla.
• Preached in synagogue until forced out.
• Stayed 18 months.
• Wrote 1 Thessalonians.
• Appeared before proconsul Gallio (51-52).

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CorinthErastus Inscription
Erastus funded this pavement in exchange for
office of Commissioner of Public Works. Paul,
writing from Corinth says, Erastus, the city
treasurer, greets you (Rom. 1623 cf. Acts
1922 2 Tim. 420). Is this the same Erastus?
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CorinthGallios Bema
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the
Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him
before the tribunal (bema). (Acts 1812)
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Return to Antioch

• Left Aquila and Priscilla in Ephesus.
• Promised to return.
• Greeted Jerusalem Church.
• After some time in Antioch, started out again.

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