A SUMMARY OF THE LATTER PART OF PAUL’S LIFE
Paul E. Kretzmann
Overview
Giving a fairly exact chronological summary of the last part of Paul’s life is attended with some difficulties, as the many varying lists, especially those given by Meyer, indicate. Even the most careful study cannot claim absolute exactness, mainly because the Biblical account permits of so wide a latitude. The list here offered is therefore intended merely as an aid in orientation and may, in this respect, claim as much historical accuracy as any other list.
| Date (AD) | Event and location |
| 32 or 33 | Conversion of Paul |
| 35 or 36 | First visit to Jerusalem after conversion. Galatians 1:18 |
| 46 | Beginning of the first missionary journey |
| August, 48 | Return to Antioch |
| 49 | Second trip to Jerusalem and resolutions concerning Judaistic teaching. Galatians 2:1 |
| Autumn, 49 | Beginning of the second missionary journey Syria and Cilicia |
| Winter, 49 – 50 | Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch |
| Spring, 50 | Troas and Philippi |
| Summer, 50 | Thessalonica and Berea |
| Early autumn, 50 | Athens and Corinth |
| Late summer, 51 | Rising of Jews — Gallio |
| Spring and early summer, 52 | Jerusalem and Antioch |
| 52 – 53 | Beginning of the third missionary journey Syria, Cilicia, and Galatia |
| Summer, 53 – June, 56 | Ephesus |
| Summer and autumn, 56 | Macedonia and Illyricum |
| End of 57 and beginning of 58 | Corinth |
| Pentecost, 58 | Jerusalem |
| June, 58 – June, 60 | Prisoner at Caesarea |
| August, 60 – February or March, 61 | Voyage to Rome |
| Spring, 61 – spring 63 | Prisoner in Rome |
| 63 – 66 | Later journeys |
| 66 or 67 | Second arrest |
| 67 or 68 | Execution |
[Cp. Syn. Ber., Oestl. Distr., 1907-1913; North Dakota and Montana, 1910 and 1912; Minnesota, 1913]