Tabular memoir
Saint Paul, in order
The dates are those ordinarily printed in standard Bibles. The original memoir notes that two years might well be subtracted from each of them. Places and years share the first column, as they did on the page.
1-5
Born at Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia.
Acts 22:3Tarsus
Learns the trade of tentmaking.
Acts 18:3Jerusalem
Taught according to “the perfect manner of the Fathers” by Gamaliel.
Acts 22:331 and 32
While yet a “young man” he participates vigorously in the persecution of Christians.
Acts 7:58; 8:1, 3, 5; 26:9-1233
Yet breathing out threatening and slaughter, he seeks and obtains a commission from the High Priest to go into Damascus on his cruel errand of persecution.
Acts 9:1-2:22:4Near Damascus
Near Damascus, a vivid, miraculous light shines from heaven and blinds him, and Saul and his company fall to the earth. Jesus appears to him and converses with him, directing him to go into the city to learn what he was to do.
Acts 9:3-4, 8; 22:6, 10; 26:14-18; I Corinthians 15:8Damascus
He arises and is led into Damascus, where he remains blind three days. Ananias, being sent by the Lord, comes to Saul, restores his sight and baptizes him.
Acts 9:7-18; 22:11-16In Arabia and Damascus
Then, Being thus born again, he retires to Arabia for a season, and returning to Damascus, at once enters upon his Apostolic labors, preaching Christ in the synagogues of Damascus, exciting the amazement of the multitude, and increasing the more in spiritual strength, he confounds the Jews.
Acts 9:20-22; Galatians 1:1736
The Jews of Damascus lie in wait day and night to kill him, but he escapes by being let down in a basket at night.
Acts 9:23-25; II Corinthians 11:33Jerusalem
He proceeds to Jerusalem, where the Disciples are at first afraid of him, but being convinced of the change in the character of Paul, receive him into their fellowship
Acts 9:26-30Tarsus
He preaches boldly; the Jews of Jerusalem seek his life, and he escapes to his native city.
Acts 9:29-3043 – Antioch
Barnabas goes to Tarsus after him, and they proceed to Antioch, where they remain a whole year and establish the first Gentile Church (here the title “Christian” is first applied to the disciples)
Acts 11:25-2644
Paul and Barnabas carry relief to the poor brethren in Judea.
Acts 11:29-30Antioch
Having fulfilled their charge, they return to Antioch. John and Mark accompany them.
Acts 12:2545 – Salamis
Paul and Barnabas are set apart by the Church of Antioch, as commanded by the Holy Ghost, for missionary work among the Gentiles; they start on their first tour, taking Mark with them; at Salamis they preach in the synagogue.
Acts 13:1-5Paphos
At Paphos, Elymas (Bar-Jesus), the sorcerer, is struck blind, and Sergius Paulus, the proconsul, is converted.
Acts 13:6-12Perga
Then they go to Perga, in Pamphylia, where Mark leaves them.
Acts 13:1346 – Antioch
Thence they go to Antioch in Pisidia, where Paul preaches with good effect a powerful sermon to the Jews, which, by request of the Gentiles, he repeats to them the following Sabbath with marked success.
Acts 13:14-18Iconium
Thence to Iconium, where they make a great many converts.
Acts 13:51; 14:1Lystra - Derbe
They go to Lystra and Derbe; at the former Paul cures the man who had been lame from birth. The people regard the Apostles as gods, and are with difficulty restrained from offering sacrifice to them.
Acts 14:2-1847 – Derbe
Not long after, some Jews, from Antioch (in Pisidia) and Iconium, induce the fickle people of Lystra to stone Paul; they leave him, supposing him dead, but he recovers miraculously, and he and Barnabas go to Derbe.
Acts 14:19-2048 – Antioch
Thence they go again via Lystra, etc. to Perga, in Pamphylia, and into Attalia, and then return to Syrian-Antioch. Thus ends Paul’s first missionary tour, and he remains at Antioch for about four years.
Acts 14:21-2852
Paul attends the Church Council held at Jerusalem to decide about the circumcision of the Gentile converts.
Acts 15:1-21Antioch
Paul, with a number of others, goes back to Antioch, bearing the decision to the Gentile Churches in Syria and Cilicia.
Acts 15:22-3553
His second missionary tour commences.
Acts 15:36-40Derbe – Lystra
He passes through Syria and Cilicia to Derbe and Lystra, where he meets with Timothy, whom he takes with him on his tour. He travels from city to city, accomplishing much good.
Acts 16:1-7Troas – Philippi
At Troas, Like joins the company, and in response to a vision Paul goes into Macedonia; at Philippi, Lydia is converted, she and her family are baptized, and she constrains the Apostle and his party to abide at her house. Paul exorcises a spirit of divination from a young girl, whose masters bring him and Silas before the magistrate; they are beaten and cast into prison, their feet are put into stocks. At midnight the prison doors are miraculously opened and their bonds loosed; the jailer is converted; he and his family are baptized.
Acts 16:8-34Thessalonica
In the morning they are released and depart from Philippi, going to Thessalonica, where Paul makes many converts.
Acts 16:35; 17:4Berea
Paul and his company go to Berea, where they are very successful.
Acts 17:5-1254
Thence to Athens, where Paul delivers a powerful sermon, making, however, but few converts.
Acts 17:13-3455 – Corinth
He soon goes to Corinth, here preaches on the Sabbaths; among the converts, considerable in number, is chief ruler of the synagogue – Crispus; the Lord appears to Paul and encourages him in the work; he remains in this city a year and a half.
Acts 18:1-17Ephesus, etc.
He goes to Ephesus; thence touching at Caesarea, he hastens toJerusalem, and returns to Antioch. After a brief rest, he makes a rapid tour (the third) through Galatia and Phrygia.
Acts 19:1-2056-58 – Ephesus
He goes again to Ephesus, where he baptizes in Jesus’ name 12 of John the Baptist’s disciples, and they receive the Holy Ghost; he preaches upwards of two years in the school of Tyrannus; “God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul”; his success here is wonderful, especially after God has discomforted certain vagabond Jewish exorcists who strive to work miracles similar to his.
Acts 19:1-2059
Paul leaves Ephesus and visits Macedonia and Greece; then returns to Philippi.
Acts 19:21; 20:560 – Troas Miletus
He goes to Troas, where Eutychus is killed by a fall from the window of a room where Paul was preaching, and is restored to life by the Apostle; he sails to Miletus; here sending for the pastors of the Church at Ephesus and delivers to them a solemn charge, moving them so that they “wept sore and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him”.
Acts 20:6-38Caesarea
Thence they sail to Caesarea, where Agabus foretells what awaits Paul at Jerusalem; nevertheless he goes to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:1-26Jerusalem
Paul is seized and cast out of the Temple by a mob, but is rescues by a Roman Officer and as he is being dragged to the castle, he is granted permission to speak to the multitude, and, standing on the steps, makes his defense in a speech that for grand eloquence and power has seldom been equaled. Being arraigned before the Sanhedrin, Paul skillfully sets his judges at variance, and is again taken in charge by the Roman authorities; the Lord appears to him and encourages him; telling him that he is to bear witness at Rome. A conspiracy is entered into by certain Jews to kill Paul, but is frustrated by his nephew and the Roman Officer, Lysius.
Acts 21:27; 23:35; 27:29Caesarea
He is arraigned before Felix, Tertullus makes a plausible speech of accusation, which Paul effectually answers; Felix defers the case; he keeps Paul a prisoner for two years, and on vacating his office leaves Paul bound.
Acts 2462
Paul is arraigned successively before Festus and Agrippa; though guilty of no crime, he, having appealed to Caesar, they cannot release him.
Acts 25 – 26Malta
Paul is sent, a prisoner, on board a ship bound for Rome; predicts the perils of the voyage; they are wrecked on Malta. Here Paul is bitten by a viper without injury; cures the father of Publius of a fever, and heals others.
Acts 27; 28:1063 – Rome – 65
They sail after three months’ delay for Rome; where they arrive without further incident and Paul is delivered to the captain of the guard, who suffers him to live by himself with but a single soldier as a guard. Paul preaches to the chief of the Jews, and subsequently he continues to teach in his lodging; he dwells two years in his own hired house; “preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.”
Acts 28:11-31