Paul's first missionary journey: Cyprus and Galatia
Sent out by the church at Antioch, Barnabas and Saul (now called Paul) preached across Cyprus and into the interior of Asia Minor, founding churches at Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.
For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’
Acts 13:47 (World English Bible)
On Cyprus the proconsul Sergius Paulus believed. At Pisidian Antioch, when many Jews rejected the message, Paul turned to the Gentiles, quoting Isaiah's words about a light to the nations. At Lystra the crowd hailed Paul and Barnabas as gods; soon after, Paul was stoned and left for dead, yet got up and went on. Returning, they appointed elders in every church.
Timothy, a young man of Lystra, probably came to faith in these years (Acts 16:1).
Places
JerusalemAntiochCyprusIconiumLystraDerbePamphyliaAntiochPergaAttaliaLycaoniaPaphosPisidiaSalamisSeleucia
Dating notes
Ussher: AD 45–46. Dates for Paul's journeys follow the conventional chronology, anchored by an inscription at Delphi, found in 1905, that dates Gallio's term as proconsul of Achaia (Acts 18:12) to AD 51–52; Ussher, who could not have known it, runs two to three years later.