Chronology
A Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee, and a Roman citizen by birth.
"Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel."
Saul guards the cloaks and approves; he then ravages the church.
The risen Jesus appears to Saul, who is called to bear Christ's name to the Gentiles.
Only Galatians mentions Arabia.
Fifteen days with Cephas; sees James, the Lord's brother.
Little is recorded. Some place 2 Cor 12:2's vision ("fourteen years ago") here.
Barnabas brings Paul; disciples first called Christians; famine relief to Judea.
Cyprus and southern Galatia.
Paul's earliest letter, from Syrian Antioch to the churches of southern Galatia, before the Jerusalem Council.
Apostles and elders decide Gentile believers need not be circumcised.
Peter withdraws from table fellowship with Gentiles; Paul opposes him.
Macedonia and Achaia; churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth.
From Corinth, soon after Timothy's return.
From Corinth, shortly after 1 Thessalonians.
The Delphi inscription dates Gallio's proconsulship — the firmest anchor in Pauline chronology.
Ephesus, Macedonia, Greece, collection for Jerusalem.
From Ephesus, before Pentecost.
From Macedonia, after Titus's report.
From Corinth, during the three months in Greece, before taking the collection to Jerusalem.
Riot in the temple; Roman tribune takes custody.
Felix leaves Paul in prison two years; Festus hears the appeal to Caesar.
Storm, shipwreck on Malta, arrival in Rome.
House arrest, preaching "with all boldness and without hindrance."
Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians, from Roman custody.
After release from Rome: 1 Timothy and Titus; then 2 Timothy from his final imprisonment.
From Italy, to Hebrew believers, before the temple fell in AD 70.
Not recorded in Scripture. Early tradition (1 Clement 5; later Eusebius) holds he was executed in Rome under Nero, by beheading.