21 - Paul at Troy and Miletus -The Itineraries Of Paul
Paul at Troy and Miletus Paul spent three years in Ephesus. From there he went up to Troas and he was upset because Titus wasn’t there. Titus had gone to Corinth. Erastus and Timothy had gone in that direction before Titus. While Paul was in Ephesus he got word that some things were going on in Galatia. He wrote a letter to the Galatians. Then he heard there was some other kind of stuff going on in Corinth and he wrote I Corinthians. Then he goes up to Troas and doesn’t find Titus there and he goes into Macedonia. While he was in Macedonia Titus came back and he wrote second Corinthians. From there he goes down to Greece which is also called Achaia and he spent three months in Corinth during the winter. While he was in Corinth he wrote a letter to the Romans. From there he travels back to Macedonia and from there over to Troas. This is where we left him. Acts 20:4-5: And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. These going before tarried for us at Troas. This is the second “we” section. It says these seven that went before, tarried at Troas which was across the Aegean Sea. Luke and Paul came shortly after them. Acts 20:6: And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. Philippi is up in Macedonia. Did they get in a boat at Philippi? No, they got in the boat in Neapolis, that’s the seaport of that area where Philippi is the chief city. “days of unleavened bread” – that sets the time in the spring, sometime around March. Acts 20:7: And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. They came together in the evening to break bread, about sunset, and Paul preached to them because he was going to depart the next morning, on
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to go to Jerusalem. That’s where the sorrow came from. The rest was like joy. He had been a great leader among them. He taught them a lot of things; the Word. Read that section over; what he taught those elders that day. Read that over and see the principles in there and there’s more than what I shared. Just see how he tenderly set his heart before his leaders on that occasion. After this he left Miletus. From there, you read chapter 21 all the way down to verse 15 where he gets to Jerusalem. He sails from Miletus down around and past Cyprus. From there he goes down to Tyre then on to Caesarea and from there to Jerusalem. After God had been telling him many times, in three different places men told him not to go to Jerusalem. Finally he says, “I’m going anyway, so he went to Jerusalem. From there he goes on his fourth journey which is his prison itinerary. Look at all the Word he taught