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Subject: Four Missionary Journeys? |
Bible Note: Rolff I am still confused as I read through this branch. We have here maybe there was no fourth missionary journey. Maybe the fourth missionary journey happened after Paul got arrested in Acts and it was on his way to Rome while being shipwrecked. Maybe it was after the first imprisonment ended in about the end of 62 A.D. to the beginning of 63 A.D., where there was about a 3 to 5 year gap without a Biblical record of what he did other than the letters themselves, before he went to prison for the final time in about 66 A.D. to 68 A.D. Judging from the content of the letters he wrote after getting out of prison alone, I would not be certain what happened for sure, although my trusty NASB has decided it is certain that there was one. Looking at the journey being shipwrecked on the way to Rome the first time it is hard on the brain to think that while under arrest and perhaps only hitting the island of Miletus that this is when he was on a fourth journey writting letters that did not get written until he got out of prison... No one purported that that is just my brain. The NASB makes the ascertion that his "fourth" missionary journey took place in between the two prison terms, which makes more sense. There is lack of letters saying where abouts he was in the interim there and that he was making visits to the churches as being a more definitive barrometer to say there was a fourth journey during that time. Which is why I will stay confused. But I encourage everyone else to be sure :-).! blessings abound, bowler |