Paul's second missionary journey

After the Jerusalem council (Acts 15), Paul split with Barnabas over Mark and set out with Silas overland through Syria and Cilicia, revisiting the churches of the first journey at Derbe, Lystra, and Iconium — where Timothy joined them. Pressed back from Asia and Bithynia, Paul received a night vision at Troas of a man from Macedonia begging for help, and the mission crossed for the first time into Europe. In Philippi they planted a church around Lydia and a freed slave-girl, and were jailed and miraculously released. Thessalonica and Berea followed — short, fruitful, and ended by mob pressure. Paul reasoned alone in Athens at the Areopagus, then settled eighteen months in Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla, writing his first letters (the Thessalonian correspondence). The party returned by ship via Ephesus, Caesarea, and Antioch. Distance: about 4,800 km, mostly on foot.