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Paul’s voyage to Rome

A prisoner at sea, shipwrecked on Malta · 12 stops · ≈ 2,970 km in straight lines

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Stops

  1. CaesareaActs 25:13After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
  2. Sidonby shipActs 27:3The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration, allowing him to visit his friends and receive their care.
  3. Myraby shipActs 27:5And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
  4. Cnidusby shipActs 27:7After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
  5. Fair Havensby shipActs 27:8After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.
  6. Maltaby shipActs 28:1Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
  7. Syracuseby shipActs 28:12Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
  8. Rhegiumby shipActs 28:13From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.
  9. Puteoliby shipActs 28:13From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.
  10. Forum of AppiusActs 28:15The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.
  11. Three TavernsActs 28:15The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.
  12. RomeActs 28:16When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Lines join the stops in the order of the text — the roads themselves are not known. Dashed: by ship. Pale: the site is uncertain.

Each point is the most likely site (OpenBible.info); a pale point means the identification is uncertain. Places whose site is unknown are not on the map.

Roman roads: the roads of the Roman Empire of about 300 BC – AD 300 by the atlas Itiner-e; dashed — roads it marks as hypothetical. The exact way of the journey along them is not described in the text.

Locations: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data (CC BY 4.0).

Land outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).

Roman roads: Itiner-e, the digital atlas of ancient roads © 2024 Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup, Itiner-e · CC BY 4.0