Third Missionary Journey Complete Map

This video uses Google Earth to show the incredible journey Paul took on his third major excursion. Called the “third missionary journey,” Paul and his companions covered a distance of some 2,700 miles (4,350 km) on this trip. As always, they walked or found passage on ships. When Paul was arrested in Jerusalem at the end of this journey, it may have signaled the end of his missionary travels. Luke ends the book of Acts without giving us details of Paul’s last years. He may or may not have made it to Spain, as he had wished (Romans 15:24, 28). But even if Paul spent his last years in prisons or under house arrest before his execution, his mission never ceased. His letters to his churches scattered across the area of modern day Turkey, Greece, Italy, and the islands in the Mediterranean. These letters reached far more people in the coming centuries than he could have ever imagined.