Tag: sailing

  • Julian and Paul: Passengers on a grain-laden slow-sailing ship

    When we last left Paul beginning his long journey to Rome, the Apostle had boarded a small ship of Adramyttian sailing from Caesarea along the coast north of Cypress to Myra in Lycia. There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it. Acts of the Apostles 27:6 LSB…

    model of a Roman sailing ship designed to haul cargo such as one on which the Apostle Paul was transported to Rome as a prisoner
  • Sailing Home on the Aegean

    And when they had come to him, he said to them,“You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials.. Acts of the Apostles 20:18-19a LSB – The Apostle Paul bidding farewell…

    Paul's 3rd missionary journey - sailing home - a map from Aegean ports toward Tyre
  • Acts 13.4 Sailing to Salamis Cypress

    Sailing from Antioch to Cypress Acts of the Apostles 13: 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus. A.D. 47 A Roman merchant ship sails from Seleucia Photo source Sailing Journeys in the Roman Empire I don’t know about you, but I…

    Seleucia Syria (1st c) to Salamis Cypress