What were Paul's journies?

Answer 1

In one of his earliest epistles, the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul said that after his conversion, he travelled to Arabia, then Damascus (bypassing Jerusalem), Jerusalem, then Syria and Cilicia, and back to Jerusalem. He spent 3 years in Damascus, 14 years in Syria and Cilicia, and indeterminate periods in the other centres.

Answer 2

Paul's journeys were for the purpose of spreading the gospel to the gentiles.

Gal 2:2 I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.

Gal 2:7 On the contrary, they saw that God had given me the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as he had given Peter the task of preaching the gospel to the Jews.

Answer 3

Acts of the Apostles attributes Paul with undertaking three major missionary journeys, but the three journeys are only a convenient classification developed by students of Acts. Students of Paul's epistles doubt whether the missionary journeys described in Acts ever took place.

In his undisputed letters Paul gives us no information about the first missionary journey, which conflicts with the itinerary that Paul himself provides, and the third missionary journey also seems unlikely. However, it is possible to harmonise Paul's own account with the second missionary journey of Acts.

Since there is no confirmation in the undisputed (or even the pseudonymous) Pauline letters of the appeal to Caesar and the journey to Rome, some scholars dismiss the account of Paul's hazardous sea journey in Acts 27:1-28:14 as novelistic fiction.

Answer 4

AnswerThere are three missionary journeys of Paul in Acts of the Apostles. However, these journeys are not described in Paul's own account, and the itinerary he provides in Galatianscertainly conflicts with the first missionary journey in Acts.

Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that the missionary journeys are only a convenient classification developed by students of Acts.

Answer 5

Paul made a few mission journeys like Paul in Antioch, Paul in Iconium, he was also ship wrecked, he went to Rome, Corinth, Thessalonian as well.