them that they might receive the Holy Ghost (8: 14, 15). With this agrees the account

of the Ethiopian eunuch who was brought to a saving knowledge of Christ by Philip's

ministry after he had been to Jerusalem to worship (8: 27). The chapter closes with the

statement that Philip preached in all cities, till he came to Cæsarea, a seaport some

70 miles north-west of Jerusalem.

With the opening of chapter 9:, Damascus comes into the book. This was a city of

Syria. Cæsarea again comes into the record in connection with Cornelius (Acts 10:). That

Jerusalem maintains its central place in the ministry, however, Acts 11: shows by the

necessity that Peter was under to justify, to the leaders of the church there, his visit to

Towards the end of Acts 11: Antioch comes into view, with Barnabas traveling as far

as Tarsus to seek Saul (Acts 11: 20, 25). Nevertheless, Jerusalem remains the centre,

This section of the Acts closes with the return of Barnabas and Saul from Jerusalem

(Acts 12: 25). But with the opening of chapter 13: commences the second part of the

Acts, and here the interest centres in Antioch. In this city Saul and Barnabas were

commissioned by the Holy Spirit. From Antioch they traveled on their first missionary

journey, and to Antioch--not Jerusalem--they returned when the work was done

(Acts 13: 4, 14: 26). This commission at Antioch was a remarkable foreshadowing of

Paul's independent ministry, as we hope to show in its own place: for the present we

continue to follow the geographical indication of the book.

Paul's journey took him to Asia Minor via Cyprus. It has been shown by

Sir William Ramsay that Antioch in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe, were all cities

of the Roman Province of Galatia, although they were not parts of the original kingdom

of Galatia, for that kingdom did not extend so far south. Consequently, we no longer

have to introduce into the history of the Acts imaginary cities which the apostle might

have visited when he founded the Galatian church. Instead of this makeshift we realize

that in Acts 13: and 14: we have mentioned the actual cities of Galatia to which the

epistle to the Galatians was subsequently written. Moreover, this discovery removes the

difficulty which otherwise exists of placing the epistle, and gives us every reason to

believe that the epistle to the Galatians is the first written by Paul.

The accompanying map shows the position of Galatia as it was in the days of Paul.