2.55 Paul's Third Mission: To the Galatians

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Paul has been on the road for 20 years. In his third and final mission, Paul travels from his base in Antioch in Syria through his earlier foundations in Turkey and Greece. He re-unites with Priscilla and Aquila. He spends a few years in the great city of Ephesus in Asia Minor. We meet Apollos, who is spreading the word of John the Baptist. As usual, Paul is violently ejected from Ephesus. This time, the pagans are to blame. Paul tells all and sundry that he has the monopoly on religious trinkets. That really upsets all those making a fortune selling relics of the great goddess Artemis. Paul barely makes it out town with his skin intact. He travels through Macedonia and Greece, then back to Asia Minor. He delivers a melancholy speech at Miletus, and reluctantly turns toward Jerusalem. I finish the episode with a letter Paul wrote during the mission, his angry letter to the Galatians, where he denounces the circumcision party of James and Peter.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast. More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.4	Episode 2.55, Paul's third mission to the Galatians.
0:28.2	In the last episode, I covered what the book of Acts regards as Paul's second mission.
0:34.9	Let's move forward to Paul's third and final mission. Paul's last mission is
0:41.9	usually dated to the years 53 to 56. Paul has been on the road for almost 20 years. He is in his
0:51.3	60s. Paul is old in a society where most people died before they reached 40.
1:00.0	As usual, Paul launches his mission from the third metropolis of the empire, Antioch in Syria.
1:09.0	He journeys through his old foundations in Asia Minor, modern Turkey.
1:14.7	At the great city of Ephesus, on the Aegean coast of Turkey, he reunites with his old mates
1:21.0	from the second mission, Priscilla and Aquila, the Jews expelled from Rome.
1:31.5	He stops in Ephesus for two or three years.
1:40.5	It seems that Paul has a lot of work to do in the city. At this point, we are given a rare and brief glimpse of the other Jesus evangelists out there.
1:46.0	Acts tells us of one Egyptian Jew called Apollos.
1:50.6	Apollos knows a lot about the Baptist, but not so much about Jesus.
1:56.5	In Ephesus, Priscilla and Aquila set him straight.
2:01.6	Quote, Acts 1824.
2:06.0	Apollos was an eloquent man, well versed in the scriptures.
2:10.5	He spoke with burning enthusiasm, though he knew only the baptism of John.
2:17.0	When Priscilla and Aquila heard him,
2:19.9	they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.
2:26.1	And when he crossed over to Corinth,
2:28.5	he greatly helped those who through grace had become believers.
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