Paul’s last farewell

Fr. Carlo Broccardo

We have already seen how, at one point in his missionary activity, Paul decided to change his place of residence from the Aegean Sea between Ephesus and Corinth to Rome. His idea was to spread the Gospel of the risen Jesus to the ends of the earth, in other words to Spain, via the capital of the empire.

Unfortunately, we don’t know if he made it to Spain, because when he arrived to Jerusalem he was almost lynched by the crowd and, in a strange case, since he was innocent and the others were guilty of violence against him, he was put in prison. Forced to undergo several more or less official trials in Jerusalem and then in Caesarea Maritime, he was always found innocent (like Jesus!), but the authorities could not bring themselves to release him. As he was a Roman citizen, he appealed to the Roman court. And so began his final journey, at least according to the Acts of the Apostles. (continue)

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