Paul’s Missionary World
Tarsus
Tarsus, southern Turkey
WHAT HAPPENED HERE
Biblical story
Paul was born in Tarsus, an influential city where his early background joined Jewish heritage with life in the wider Greco-Roman world.
WHY IT MATTERS
Place in the Bible’s story
Tarsus helps explain the cultural and linguistic preparation Paul later used in carrying the gospel across the Roman world.
THEN & NOW
Understanding the location
The modern Turkish city occupies the same general location, though much of its ancient fabric lies beneath later settlement.
RELATED SCRIPTURE · KJV
Read it in the Bible
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12
“Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.”
Acts 28:31
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