Introduction to 2 Corinthians

C.Results of cheerful giving (9:6-15)

IV.The Case against False Apostles (10:1-13:10)

A.Paul’s authority from Christ (10:1-18)

B.False apostles condemned (11:1-15)

C.Paul’s speech as a fool (11:16-12:10)

D.Signs of a true apostle (12:11-21)

E.Basis of Paul’s authority (13:1-10)

V.Final Greetings (13:11-13)

Jesus’s trials, death, resurrection, and ascension Nisan 14-16 or April 3-5, 33

Pentecost 33

Saul’s conversion on the Damascus Road October 34

Paul returns to his native Tarsus. Summer 37-40

Barnabas travels from Antioch of Syria to find Paul. Summer 40

Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark make the first missionary journey. 47-49

Paul and Silas begin second missionary journey by land through Cilicia, Galatia, and Asia Minor to Troas. 49-50

Paul, Silas, and Timothy sail from Troas to Macedonia and minister in the Macedonian cities of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea. 50

Paul preaches on Mars Hill in Athens. 50

Paul arrives in Corinth and spends eighteen months planting the church. 50-51

Paul meets Aquila and Priscilla, who had come to Corinth when Emperor Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome six years earlier. 51

Paul writes 1 and 2 Thessalonians from Corinth. 51

Paul’s hearing before Corinth’s proconsul, Gallio, brother of the Roman philosopher Seneca 51

Paul begins his third missionary journey by land through Asia Minor to Ephesus. 53

Paul spends three years in Ephesus. 54-56

Paul writes 1 Corinthians from Ephesus. 56

Paul writes 2 Corinthians from Ephesus. 56

Paul spends the winter in Corinth where he writes the letter to Romans. 57

Paul returns to Jerusalem with funds he had collected from Gentile churches to support the poor in the Jerusalem church 57

Shortly before his death, Emperor Nero brings six thousand slaves from Judea to build a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. Following Nero’s death the project is abandoned. 67