Acts continues · the missionary journeys
From Cyprus
to Gallio’s Corinth
Follow the first journey, the Jerusalem council, Paul’s Macedonian call, and the second journey to the Gallio anchor.
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The first journey continues
Cyprus, Pisidia, Lycaonia, and the return
After the Antioch sending · exact civil years under reviewActs names the route and preserves the order. It does not supply a numbered year for each stop, so the journey is kept together without invented dates.
Cyprus
Saul—also called Paul—answers Elymas
Acts 13:6–12
King James Version“Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him… Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.John Mark is with Barnabas and Saul when they cross Cyprus; Sergius Paulus believes at Paphos.
Antioch in Pisidia
Forgiveness and justification are preached
Acts 13:38–39
King James Version“Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Paul reasons from Israel’s history and the resurrection of Jesus.
The following sabbath
The word turns openly toward the Gentiles
Acts 13:46–47
King James Version“It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you… I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The Gentiles are glad and glorify the word of the Lord.
Lystra
Paul rises after being stoned
Acts 14:19–20
King James Version“Having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The next day Paul departs with Barnabas to Derbe.
Return route
They confirm the disciples and ordain elders
Acts 14:21–23
King James Version“They returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.They return through the same young churches before reporting to Antioch.
Antioch
They remain a long time with the disciples
Acts 14:27–28
King James Version“They rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles. And there they abode long time with the disciples.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.“Long time” is a stated duration, but it cannot honestly be converted into an exact number of months.
Placement under review02
The Jerusalem council
The apostles settle the Gentile question
Commonly placed about AD 49 · CY 3971 · year under reviewThe council follows the first journey and the Antioch dispute. Its scriptural sequence is firm; the commonly proposed AD 49 placement is retained as a review date rather than declared certain.
Antioch
A dispute arises concerning circumcision
Acts 15:1–2
King James Version“Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved… they determined that Paul and Barnabas… should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The church sends Paul, Barnabas, and others to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem
Peter testifies to salvation through grace
Acts 15:7–11
King James Version“But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Peter points to God’s earlier reception of the Gentiles and rejects placing the yoke upon them.
James answers
Do not trouble the Gentiles who turn to God
Acts 15:13–20
King James Version“Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.James proposes the instructions incorporated into the council’s letter.
The letter
No greater burden is laid upon them
Acts 15:22–29
King James Version“For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Judas and Silas accompany Paul and Barnabas to Antioch with the written decision.
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The second journey begins
Paul and Silas are called into Macedonia
After the council · route settled, exact departure year under reviewA sharp disagreement separates Paul and Barnabas without stopping the work. Paul chooses Silas, Timothy joins, and the Macedonian vision carries the mission westward.
Antioch
Barnabas takes Mark; Paul chooses Silas
Acts 15:36–41
King James Version“And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other… And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Barnabas sails to Cyprus while Paul goes through Syria and Cilicia.
Lystra
Timothy joins Paul
Acts 16:1–3
King James Version“Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus… Him would Paul have to go forth with him.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The churches are established in the faith and increase daily.
Troas
The Macedonian call
Acts 16:9–10
King James Version“There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The narrative changes to “we,” and the company immediately seeks to go into Macedonia.
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Macedonia and Achaia
Households believe; cities hear the word
Philippi through Athens · narrative order settledActs supplies a detailed sequence through Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, and Athens, but gives no regnal year until the narrative reaches Gallio at Corinth.
Philippi
The Lord opens Lydia’s heart
Acts 16:13–15
King James Version“A certain woman named Lydia… heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Lydia and her household are baptized.
At midnight
The prison opens at Philippi
Acts 16:25–26
King James Version“And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God… And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The jailer asks what he must do to be saved.
That same hour
The jailer believes with his house
Acts 16:30–34
King James Version“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The word of the Lord is spoken to all in his house, and they are baptized.
Thessalonica
Paul reasons for three sabbath days
Acts 17:1–4
King James Version“And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.He alleges that Christ must suffer and rise again.
Berea
The Scriptures are searched daily
Acts 17:10–12
King James Version“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Many believe, including honourable Greek women and men.
Athens
God commands all men every where to repent
Acts 17:22–31
King James Version“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Paul speaks of the known God, creation, repentance, judgment, and the resurrection.
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Corinth and Gallio
An outside inscription meets a stated biblical interval
CY 3973–3974 · about AD 51–52Acts states that Paul remains in Corinth for a year and six months and names Gallio as deputy of Achaia. The Delphi inscription securely places Gallio’s proconsulship about AD 51–52, making this the strongest chronological anchor on the page.
Corinth
Paul finds Aquila and Priscilla
Acts 18:1–3
King James Version“And found a certain Jew named Aquila… lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:).”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Suetonius supplies an outside parallel for Claudius’s expulsion order, but its exact year and cause remain debated.
Placement under reviewEvery sabbath
Paul reasons in the synagogue
Acts 18:4–8
King James Version“And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.Crispus believes on the Lord with all his house, and many Corinthians believe and are baptized.
Stated interval
Paul continues one year and six months
Acts 18:9–11
King James Version“And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The duration is explicit even though Acts does not name its opening month.
Gallio’s deputyship
Paul is brought before Gallio
Acts 18:12–17
King James Version“And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.The Gallio inscription anchors this episode about AD 51–52, corresponding to CY 3973–3974 in the project’s conversion.
Journey closes
Paul returns by way of Ephesus
Acts 18:18–22
King James Version“And he came to Ephesus, and left them there… And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.”Read the full chapter →Tap the reference again to close.This closes the second journey and prepares for Paul’s next departure.
Chronology register
What is fixed, and what remains open
The page keeps every biblical interval while refusing to manufacture precision the text does not supply.
The route is secure. Acts’s “long time” at Antioch is not converted into a guessed number of months.
Its place after the first journey is secure. AD 49 / CY 3971 is a working historical placement under review.
The city sequence is settled from Acts 15–18; most individual arrivals have no numbered year.
Acts and Suetonius preserve parallel notices. The exact date and Suetonius’s “Chrestus” wording remain debated.
Acts explicitly gives one year and six months. Its exact starting month is not supplied.
The Delphi inscription places his Achaian proconsulship about AD 51–52, corresponding to CY 3973–3974.
The same gospel crosses new ground
Antioch sends; Jerusalem confirms; Macedonia hears.
The Gentile mission does not appear as a second gospel or a detached church. The same apostles and elders receive the report, settle the question at Jerusalem, and commend the workers who carry the word through Macedonia and Achaia.