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c. AD 49-52 · Acts 15:36 - 18:22

Paul's second journey

Across to Macedonia and eighteen months in Corinth

JUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAASIA MINORGREECECYPRUSCRETEThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Aegean SeaNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea1Antioch2Tarsus3Derbe4Lystra5Troas6Samothrace7Neapolis8Philippi9Thessalonica10Berea11Athens12Corinth13Cenchreae14Ephesus15Caesarea MaritimaN200 km

15 stops · roughly 3,059 km end to end

Click any stop to see a photograph of the site as it stands today.

Stop by stop

  1. 1

    Antioch

    Acts 15:36

    Setting out again after the council.

  2. 2

    Tarsus

    Acts 15:41
    138 km from Antioch

    Through Cilicia, his home region.

  3. 3

    Derbe

    Acts 16:1
    145 km from Tarsus

    Revisiting the first-journey churches.

  4. 4

    Lystra

    Acts 16:1-3
    83 km from Derbe

    Timothy joins the party.

  5. 5

    Troas

    Acts 16:8-10
    597 km from Lystra

    The vision of the man of Macedonia.

  6. 6

    Samothrace

    Acts 16:11
    95 km from Troas

    Overnight on the crossing.

  7. 7

    Neapolis

    Acts 16:11
    108 km from Samothrace

    Landing in Europe.

  8. 8

    Philippi

    Acts 16:12-40
    13 km from Neapolis

    Lydia, the jail, and the Roman colony's magistrates.

  9. 9

    Thessalonica

    Acts 17:1-9
    121 km from Philippi

    Three sabbaths in the synagogue.

  10. 10

    Berea

    Acts 17:10-14
    64 km from Thessalonica

    The daily examining of the scriptures.

  11. 11

    Athens

    Acts 17:16-34
    312 km from Berea

    The Areopagus address.

  12. 12

    Corinth

    Acts 18:1-17
    75 km from Athens

    Eighteen months; the hearing before Gallio.

  13. 13

    Cenchreae

    Acts 18:18
    12 km from Corinth

    The vow, then sailing east.

  14. 14

    Ephesus

    Acts 18:19-21
    382 km from Cenchreae

    A short first visit.

  15. 15

    Caesarea Maritima

    Acts 18:22
    914 km from Ephesus

    Landing back in Judea.

What the record fixes

The Gallio inscription from Delphi dates the Corinth hearing to AD 51-52, the firmest date in Paul's life. The Erastus pavement at Corinth and the Philippi forum are both in situ.