Paul’s journeys, one named stop at a time.
Play all 4 routes, inspect what happened at each place and open the passage trail. Sea and land lines are teaching reconstructions—not GPS claims.
First missionary journey
Sent by the Antioch community, Barnabas and Paul cross Cyprus, enter southern Asia Minor and revisit the new communities before returning.
Barnabas · John Mark (until Perga)
View the complete 15-stop itinerary
What changes across the four routes
The first journey begins with a commissioning community in Syrian Antioch, crosses Cyprus and enters southern Asia Minor. The second revisits those communities before the narrative turns west into Macedonia and Greece. The third centers on a long Ephesian ministry and a carefully narrated return to Jerusalem. The final route is not a voluntary mission itinerary: Paul travels under guard after appealing to Caesar.
Acts supplies the main sequence. Paul’s letters provide a second window into coworkers, plans and communities, but they do not always map neatly onto Acts’ narrative. Manna follows Acts for the default route and labels supplementary inference rather than quietly inserting it.
Why dates remain approximate
Gallio’s proconsulship helps anchor Paul’s Corinth stay during the second journey. Other dates are reconstructed around that and other political references, durations and letter sequences. The familiar labels “first,” “second” and “third” are useful summaries of Acts, not titles used by Paul himself.
Map limits: coastlines are intentionally schematic, coordinates locate the identified ancient site at overview scale, and connecting lines do not claim a specific road, harbor approach or day-by-day course.