PAUL'S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY

2. a) Pisidian, Antioch
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The picture is of Pisidian Antioch became the capital of a new province, Pisidia, created by Diocletian in 295 A.D. The theatre was rebuilt with a stupendous engineering feat of building the extension over the main east-west avenue. Architecture here was modeled on that in Rome.

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Paul may have visited Antioch again on his second and third missionary journeys, but only Derbe and Lystra are mentioned in Acts 16:1. Since he went from Lystra through the Phrygian and Galatian regions to Alexandria Troas, he could well have also returned to Antioch. The account of the third missionary journey is even less specific, giving only the region names (Acts 18:23). He does talk in 2 Timothy 3:11 about the persecutions he suffered there, which could refer to being expelled from town, and in Galatians 4:15 he refers to a "bodily illness" that first drove him to that country. But what the illness was (malaria? trachoma? jaundice?) or just where he went to recover is not specified.
Reference:
Text from Biblical Sites in Turkey used with permission.
Blake, Everett C. and Anna G. Edmonds. Biblical Sites in Turkey. © SEV Matbaacilik ve Yayinlik A.S.

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