Later, in Caesarea, Agabus, the prophet and the people of the local congregation begged Paul not to go up to Jerusalem (vv. 8-12). Most rational people regard warnings as something to be guided by and suffering as something to be avoided. It is obvious that Paul and the churches he ha...
In thefollowing, I will discuss a few examples of how such travels are described, by focus-ing on the physical and spiritual aspects of the travel as a process, and on the de-scription of the travel destinations themselves. This is not an exhaustive study of themotif of travel, but the...