Facts about the Prison Epistles

Here are some facts about the Prison Epistles written by the Apostle Paul.

1. From Corinth on his third missionary journey Paul traveled back through Macedonia, made a brief stop at Ephesus to say good-bye to the Ephesian elders and then traveled towards Jerusalem.

2. They landed in Tyre, made a stop in Caesarea and then traveled to Jerusalem.

3. Paul was warned by a prophecy at Caesarea through a man named Agabus that he would receive trouble in Jerusalem but Paul was convinced that he needed to go report to the church there.

4. Paul reported to James and the elders of the church all that God had done among the Gentiles and they praised God but also warned him about how the orthodox Jews were very upset at him.

5. Paul engaged in a purification vow to prove his Jewishness but after it was completed some Jews from Asia saw him and began to stir up people against him.

6. The people blamed Paul for teaching all men everywhere (the Gentiles) that he was against the temple and the law and that he had even defiled the holy place in the temple by allowing Gentiles to enter.

7. The crowds became so angry and adamant that the Roman soldiers had to step in.

8. To make a long story short, Paul was brought before the governor and the king but he eventually appealed to Caesar because he was a Roman.

9. He was taken by ship and after a shipwreck at sea Paul ends up in Rome under "house arrest". It is here that he writes four Epistles from prison.

Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
Philemon

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