Missionary Journeys Of St. Paul

Missionary Journeys of St. Paul

During one of his missionary journeys St. Paul visited Ephesus in Turkey.
He stays in the city about three years (Acts 19:1-20). In Ephesus Paul discovers twelve believers who were baptized but who did'nt as yet have God's spirit. Paul baptizes them in His name and they receive God's Holy Spirit (Acts 19:1-7).

Seven Churches of Revelation

Seven Churches of Revelation

In looking at the letters to the 7 Churches, we see the Lord speaking directly to the 7 Churches
that existed in the Holy land at the time John lived. We also see the Lord's opinion of those Churches, and what they were doing
at the time: Ephesus, Pergamon, Laodicea, Sardis, Thyatira, Smyrna, Philadelphia churches.

Biblical Sites in Turkey

Biblical sites in Turkey

Turkey is called the Other Holy Land as it has more biblical sites than any other country in the Middle East.
Antioch - the place where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians; Tarsus - where Apostle Paul was born and many others..

About St. John  The Gospel of St. John

The Gospel According to St. John  CHAPTER -17

CHAPTER 17
                                                                                                                                

17:1
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

17:2
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent.

17:4
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

17:6
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

17:7
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

17:8
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

17:9
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

17:10
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

17:11
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethat thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

17:13
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy
fulfilled in themselves.

17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17:15
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

17:18
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

17:19
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

17:20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

17:21
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

17:23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

17:24
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

17:25
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

17:26
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou
hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

The Gospel of St. John
Chapter 01        Chapter 02        Chapter 03        Chapter 04        Chapter 05        Chapter 06
Chapter 07        Chapter 08        Chapter 09        Chapter 10        Chapter 11        Chapter 12
Chapter 13        Chapter 14        Chapter 15        Chapter 16        Chapter 17        Chapter 18
Chapter 19        Chapter 20        Chapter 21       


About St. John
St. John and The Seven Churches
Letters to Seven Churches
Map of Seven Churches
The Book of Revelation
The Early Christians
The Gospel of St. John