Apostle Paul

The passage argues from nature and then seems to contradict itself. One striking proposal about a single Greek word, and what is worth keeping from it.

Everyone assumes an illness. The phrase comes from the Old Testament and there it always means people, and Paul calls it a messenger rather than a condition.

One verse set against a great deal of counter-evidence in the same author. What Ephesus was, what the rare Greek verb means, and why the setting matters.

The book ends with him alive under house arrest, and the silence is itself evidence. What it implies about when Acts was written, and about Luke's Gospel.

Scripture never narrates it. What the earliest sources say about Rome, Nero, and the sword, which details are late, and whether he ever reached Spain.

Fourteen days driven before a storm, 276 people saved, and a snake on Malta. Then two years under guard in Rome, where Acts stops mid-sentence on purpose.

A false rumour started a riot, Roman soldiers pulled him out of a lynching, and two years of custody followed. The arrest that carried him to Caesar in Rome.

His longest stay anywhere, in the occult capital of Asia, ending in a riot by silversmiths whose trade was collapsing. Plus the letters written along the way.

A quarrel, a vision, and the gospel crossing into Europe. Philippi, Athens, Corinth, and the inscription that anchors the whole chronology of Paul's life.

Cyprus, Galatia, a stoning, and then the meeting that decided whether Gentile converts had to become Jews. The journey that forced the Jerusalem Council.