After he was beaten by a Jewish mob at the Jerusalem temple, Paul was arrested and bound in chains by the commander of the garrison along with Roman soldiers and centurions. As he stood atop the stairs that led to the command post barracks, the chief captain allowed Paul to address his persecutors. In his […]
In Jerusalem around A.D. 58, Paul was taken out of the temple and beaten by a mob of Jews from Asian who claimed he was a false teacher. Then, Paul was arrested and bound in chains by the commander of the garrison along with Roman soldiers and centurions. “37 Then as Paul was about to […]
In Jerusalem around A.D. 58, Paul’s teaching came under scrutiny by the church elders, notably the apostle James, the brother of Jesus who had been appointed leader of the Christian church. To reassure the elders, Paul was assigned four Jewish Christians who would, along with the missionary undergo a week long Nazaritish purification process. “26 […]
At Caesarea around A.D. 58, Paul and his fellow missionaries had been staying with Philip, an evangelist whose work in the cities of the sea-coast stretched nearly a quarter of a century. There, Paul was visited by Agabus, a prophet from Judea who foretold of the suffering that awaited the missionary in Jerusalem. In spite […]
Paul had been at Miletus, a Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia where he addressed, exhorted and encouraged Ephesian church elders as each one continued to fulfill the great commission to advance the gospel and lead people to Christ. There, he revealed to them this was the last time they would see him […]
At Miletus, Paul called for the Ephesian church elders to join him so he could deliver a final exhortation to his beloved fellow servants. He started his address by reminding the Ephesian leaders of the sacrifices he made for the furtherance of God’s kingdom, and the teaching he poured out in Ephesus for over three […]
Accompanied by a small group of disciples, now on his third missionary journey through Asia Minor, Paul had traveled from Philippi to Miletus, where he summoned the Ephesian bishops to join him. “17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church.” (Acts 20:17) Because he was at the root […]
Paul was on his third missionary journey through Asia Minor, the peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Paul’s mission had begun in at Ephesus, a little over 3 years prior, and included Luke, Timothy, Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. The […]
In 58 AD shortly after the “days of unleavened bread,” Paul and Luke arrived in Troas where they joined Sopater of Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, Gaius of Derbe, Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia as well as Timothy. The missionaries had been in Philippi for Passover, the Jewish commemoration of their liberation over […]
Near the end of his 3 year stay at Ephesus, a mob gathered in an attempt to persecute Christian missionaries as these ministers of Christ threatened the lively hood of many silversmiths when they preached the gospel and revealed the Ephesian idolatry was only sinful, but a distraction that prevented many from fulfilling their divinely […]