Apostolic travel register

Paul’s road,
without a missing chapter of Acts

This page gathers Paul’s journeys, measurable intervals, imprisonments, and later testimony in one place. Acts controls the narrated route; Paul’s letters add personal details; early Christian writers remain plainly labeled outside witnesses.

Acts and the stated intervals

Six connected stages from Damascus to Rome

The travel line below consolidates the first-century pages already on the main timeline. It does not replace them; each stage links back to its full timeline record.

Damascus, Arabia, Jerusalem, and Tarsus

Damascus → Arabia → Damascus → Jerusalem → Caesarea → Tarsus

Measured time: After three years; fifteen days with Peter
Evidence note: Acts gives the movement; Galatians supplies Paul’s personal interval. The endpoints are not forced into a guessed AD year.

Acts 9:1–30 · Galatians 1:15–21

Antioch and the first journey

Antioch → Seleucia → Cyprus → Perga → Pisidian Antioch → Iconium → Lystra → Derbe → return

Measured time: One whole year at Antioch before the sending; journey duration unstated
Evidence note: The Holy Ghost separates Barnabas and Saul. Acts records the route and return without supplying a total number of months.

Acts 11:25–26 · Acts 13–14

Jerusalem council and the second journey

Antioch → Syria and Cilicia → Galatia → Troas → Macedonia → Athens → Corinth → Ephesus → Antioch

Measured time: Three sabbath days at Thessalonica; one year and six months at Corinth
Evidence note: Acts measures selected stays. Gallio’s proconsulship supplies the strongest outside historical anchor for this journey.

Acts 15:1–18:22

The third journey and farewell

Galatia and Phrygia → Ephesus → Macedonia → Greece → Troas → Miletus → Tyre → Caesarea → Jerusalem

Measured time: Three synagogue months; two years at Tyrannus; Paul’s three-year summary
Evidence note: These Ephesian notices overlap; they must not be stacked into five years and three months. Paul then continues toward Jerusalem despite repeated warnings.

Acts 18:23–21:17

Arrest, Caesarea, and appeal

Jerusalem → Antipatris → Caesarea

Measured time: Five days to the hearing; two full years under Felix
Evidence note: Paul answers Felix, Festus, and Agrippa and appeals unto Caesar. The two-year Caesarea interval is exact; its final AD conversion depends on the reviewed Festus boundary.

Acts 21:18–26:32

Storm, Malta, and Rome

Caesarea → Sidon → Myra → Crete → Melita → Syracuse → Rhegium → Puteoli → Rome

Measured time: Fourteen nights; three months on Malta; seven days at Puteoli; two whole years at Rome
Evidence note: Acts counts this road almost step by step and closes with Paul preaching the kingdom of God in his own hired house.

Acts 27–28

What the epistles add

Letters illuminate the road without redrawing it

Letters connected with active ministry

1–2 Thessalonians, 1–2 Corinthians, Romans, and Galatians are commonly associated with Paul’s journeys. Exact placement of Galatians is debated, so the site does not use a disputed writing date to move a settled timeline event.

Letters written in bonds

Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon name bonds or fellow prisoners. Rome is a natural setting for several, but the individual letters do not print a modern date at their head.

Pastoral letters

1 Timothy and Titus preserve movements involving Ephesus, Macedonia, Crete, and Nicopolis. 2 Timothy presents Paul expecting death. Their relative clues are retained without pretending Acts narrates a complete later itinerary.

Beyond Acts 28

Firm statements, plausible reconstruction, and later testimony

Firm in Scripture

Paul expected his departure

Second Timothy records Paul saying that he was ready to be offered, that his departure was at hand, and that the Lord stood with him at his first answer. It does not name Nero, an execution method, or a calendar year.

Read 2 Timothy 4 →

Early outside witness

Clement remembers Paul’s sufferings

First Clement 5 presents Peter and Paul as recent examples of suffering and says Paul reached the limit of the west before his departure from the world. This is early Christian testimony—not KJV Scripture and not an exact execution date.

Read First Clement 5 ↗

Careful conclusionA post-Acts release and further ministry can explain the Pastoral Epistles, and early writers remember Paul’s death after extensive witness. The reconstruction is reasonable, but the site will not manufacture a fourth journey with exact years that Scripture never states.