Journey 1 • Acts 13–14
Antioch in Syria → Cyprus (Salamis, Paphos) → Perga → Pisidian Antioch → Iconium → Lystra → Derbe → return through the same Galatian cities → Perga/Attalia → Antioch.
Biblical Maps • Acts 13–28
Paul’s Missionary World
Follow Paul’s first, second, and third missionary journeys and his later voyage to Rome as four separate layers. The stops follow the sequence preserved in Acts; connecting lines are teaching reconstructions and do not claim the exact Roman roads or sailing tracks used between every named place.
Accuracy note: Acts gives many named stops but rarely identifies the exact road segment, harbor approach, or offshore track between them. Each layer therefore connects biblical locations in narrative order. Land and sea lines are schematic, and regional passages such as “Phrygia and Galatia” are not reduced to a single invented city.
Four layers, not one continuous mission route. The first two missionary journeys begin and return to Syrian Antioch. The third begins from Antioch but ends with Paul reaching Jerusalem. The later journey to Rome is different in character: Paul travels as a prisoner after appealing to Caesar, beginning from Caesarea and eventually reaching Rome after shipwreck on Malta.
Map key
Turn journeys on and off.
Journey 1
Cyprus and southern Galatia: Acts 13–14.
Journey 2
Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece: Acts 15:36–18:22.
Journey 3
Asia Minor, Ephesus, Macedonia, Greece, and the return to Jerusalem: Acts 18:23–21:17.
Voyage to Rome
Caesarea, Crete, Malta, Italy, and Rome: Acts 27–28.
Biblical city / island
Marker for a named place with a strong or leading modern identification.
Schematic segment
Direction and sequence are known more confidently than the exact road or sailing line.
Journey overview
Read Acts with the geography visible.
Journey 2 • Acts 15:36–18:22
Antioch → Syria/Cilicia → Derbe and Lystra → Phrygia/Galatia → Troas → Philippi → Thessalonica → Berea → Athens → Corinth → Ephesus → Caesarea → Antioch.
Journey 3 • Acts 18:23–21:17
Antioch → Galatia/Phrygia → Ephesus → Macedonia → Greece → return through Macedonia → Troas → Miletus → island/coastal stops → Tyre → Caesarea → Jerusalem.
Voyage to Rome • Acts 27–28
Caesarea → Sidon → Myra → Cnidus → Crete/Fair Havens → shipwreck on Malta → Syracuse → Rhegium → Puteoli → Rome.
Antioch of Syria
The sending church and major base for Paul’s missionary work. OpenBible identifies Antioch on the Orontes with very high confidence.
Acts 13:1–3; 14:26–28Ephesus
A major center of the third journey where Paul ministered for an extended period and from which the gospel spread through the province of Asia.
Acts 19Corinth
Paul remained in Corinth for an extended period during the second journey and later revisited Greece.
Acts 18:1–18; 20:2–3Malta
Acts explicitly names Malta as the island where the shipwreck survivors learned they had landed.
Acts 28:1Reference approach
Acts supplies the itinerary; maps supply orientation.
Route sequence is cross-checked with Bible Mapper’s Paul journey maps, including its “Paul’s Voyage to Rome.” OpenBible.info identifies many major stops with very high confidence, including Antioch on the Orontes, Paphos, Perga, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Troas, Miletus, Caesarea Maritima, Myra, Cnidus, Fair Havens, Malta, Syracuse, Puteoli, and Rome. Derbe is displayed at Kerti Hüyük, OpenBible’s leading proposal at about 90% confidence.