Religion Subject

1. Growth of the
Church:
Paul and his
Missionary
journeys

3. Source of information:
Luke- Acts
Galatians- written by Paul himself.

4. Paul who?
born in Tarsus in the
province of Cilicia (Now
Turkey), part of the vast
Roman Empire
born in the first decade
probably between AD5
and 10
parents were perhaps
Pharisees living with the
Jews in diaspora in
Tarsus

5. Mediterranean Sea

6. Tarsus

7. ‫שאול‬
or Παύλος?
“little”
Saul: Semitic name (ancestry)
Paul: Greco-Roman name (citizenship)

8. Education?
Hellenistic
grew in Pharisaic Judaism; synagogue
Acts 22:3: Paul studied at the feet of the famous
Jewish Scholar Gamaliel.
was a Tent maker.
trained in the Greek culture, language, rhetoric, art
of writing

9. Paul became a Rabbi himself

10. Sadducees and
Pharisees

11. Was Paul married?
Yes!
Phil.4:3 (Clement of Alexandria)
No!
1 Cor.7:7-8; 9:5

12. From Persecutor to
Defender
Acts 9:1-19; 22:3-21; 26:9-
18
Galatians 1:11-23

14. Barnabbas
Joseph Barnabbas (son of encouragement)
brought Paul to Antioch from Tarsus

15. The 3 Missionary
journeys
Get your Bible!
Acts 13:1-14:28;
Acts 15:36- 18:22
Acts 18:23-21:16

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17. First Missionary Journey
Acts 13:1- 14:28, AD 46-48 with Barnabbas &
John Mark
Places visited:
Antioch of Syria (Orontes), Seleucia (Turkey),
Salamis, Pahpos(in Cyprus), Antioch of
Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, Antioch

19. Second Missionary
Journey
Acts 15:36-18:22 with Silas, Timothy (from Lystra)
and Luke (from Troas)
places visited:
Antioch of O., Syria, Cilicia, Derbe, Lystra,
Iconium, Phrygic- Galatic territory opposite
Mysia, Troas, Samothrace, Neapolis, Philippi,
Amphipolis, Apollonia, Thessalonica, Berea,
Athens, Corinth, Cenchreae, Ephesus,
Caesarea, Jerusalem, Antioch of O.

21. 3rd Missionary Journey
Acts 18:23- 21:16, AD 53- 58 with Silas, Timothy
and Luke
Places visited:
Antioch of O., Phrygic- galatic territory,
Ephesus, Macedonia, Greece, Philippi, Troas,
Assos, Mitylele, Samos, Miletus, Cos, Rhodes,
Patara, Tyre, Ptolemais, Caesarea, Jerusalem

23. What do we get from
Paul’s life and journey?
God reveals himself to all people: sinners,
Gentiles
It took three journeys: God’s Word did not come
in a flash, God was patient.
God’s Word respects human process