Where Paul wished to visit?

Answer 1

According to Paul's account in the Epistle to the Galatians, he travelled first to Arabia, then Damascus (bypassing Jerusalem), Jerusalem, then Syria and Cilicia, and back to Jerusalem. He must have travelled extensively in Asia Minor and Greece, as well as Rome. Acts of the Apostles also has him visit Caesaria, Tarsus, Antioch, Cyprus and Caesaria.

Answer 2

The three journeys are described as only a convenient classification developed by students of Acts, which contains many puzzling anomalies against Paul's own account in the epistles.

In his undisputed letters Paul gives us no information about the first missionary journey, and it is doubtful whether the other two journeys actually occurred as described in Acts of the Apostles. Paul himself never mentions the appeal to Caesar nor the hazardous sea journey to Rome. In fact, some who challenge the historicity of Acts dismiss the account of Paul's sea journey in Acts 27:1-28:14 as novelistic fiction. And it is possible that the author of Acts was drawing a parallel between Saul or Paul, and a certain Saulus mentioned in a different context by the Jewish historian, Josephus.

On a purely historical basis, the missionary journeys of Acts should be regarded as probably not having occurred. Many of the places mentioned were never even visited by Paul.

Answer 3

Anatolia, Greece, Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, Jerusalem.

Answer 4

Iconium, Lystra, Derbe