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Pauline Letters · Evidence-led guide

Paul’s life, traced through Acts and his letters

Paul’s story becomes clearer when Acts, his letters, geography, and honest uncertainty are read together rather than as isolated episodes.

Created and edited by Thomas Diong · Updated

Reader question

Where did Paul travel, when did he write, and which parts of that reconstruction remain debated?

One connected journey

Pauline Letters joins the narrative sequence of Acts to the circumstances named inside the letters. The result is not a claim that every date is certain. It is a navigable reconstruction that shows its biblical references, identifies debated chronology, and lets you enter the immersive story at a precise moment.

Built to be checked

Every guide points back to visible sources. High-confidence events, historical inference, and later tradition are labeled differently. The timeline, map, manuscript records, methodology, and source registry remain ordinary readable pages even when JavaScript or WebGL is unavailable.

Paul’s route across the eastern MediterraneanA geographic overview from Jerusalem and Damascus through Asia Minor and Greece, then by sea through Malta to Rome. The ordered stop list follows the map.
Named places use geographic coordinates; inferred corridors and debated locations are identified in the stop list.
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67 dated entries

Timeline

Acts and the letters placed on one uncertainty-aware chronology.

Mediterranean routes

Map

Named places, sea passages, and equivalent ordered stop lists.

13 guides

Journeys

From Saul the persecutor to later martyrdom tradition.

13 guides

Letters

Occasion, dating, witness, and authorship disagreement.

Bibliography and sources

  1. Acts 7–28, World English Bible (public domain). View source
  2. Romans through Philemon, World English Bible (public domain). View source
  3. The project’s 67-row chronology, cross-referencing Acts and the letters and labeling debated dates.