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Constable  \nWRITER AND DATE  \nThroughout the history of the church, from post-apostolic times to the present, Christians have regarded Romans as having been one of the Apostle Paul's epistles.1 Not only does the letter claim that he wrote it (1:1), but it develops many of the same ideas and uses the same terminology that appear in Paul's earlier writings (e.g., Gal. 2; 1 Cor. 12; 2 Cor. 8—9) .  \nFollowing his conversion on the Damascus Road (A. D. 34), Paul preached in Damascus, spent some time in Arabia, and then returned to Damascus. Next he traveled to Jerusalem where he met briefly with Peter and James. He then moved on to Tarsus, which was evidently his base of operations from where he ministered for about six years (A. D. 37-43) . In response to an invitation from Barnabas, he moved to Antioch of Syria where he served for about five years (A. D. 43-48) . He and Barnabas then set out on their so-called first missionary journey into Cyprus and the Roman province of Asia (in Asia Minor, A. D. 48-49) . Returning to Antioch of Syria, Paul wrote the Epistle to the Galatians to strengthen the churches that he and Barnabas had just planted in that part of the province of Asia (A. D. 49) .  \nAfter the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), Paul took Silas and began his second missionary journey (A. D. 50-52) through Asia, and farther westward into the Roman provinces of Macedonia and Achaia. From Corinth, in Achaia, Paul wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians (A. D. 51) . He then proceeded to Ephesus, in Asia, by ship, and finished the second journey at Antioch of Syria. From there he set out on his third missionary journey (A. D. 53-57) . Passing through Asia, he arrived in Ephesus where he labored for three years (A. D. 53- 56) . During this time he wrote 1 Corinthians (A. D. 56) . Finally, Paul left Ephesus and traveled by land to Macedonia, where he wrote 2 Corinthians (A. D. 56) . He continued  \n1See F. Godet, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, pp. 45-46; C. E. B. Cranfield, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, 1:1-2.  \nCopyright © 2026 by Thomas L. Constable  \n2 Dr. Constable's Notes on Romans 2026 Edition  \nsouth and spent the winter of A. D. 56-57 in Corinth. There he wrote the Epistle to the Romans, and sent it by Phoebe (16:1-2) to the Roman church.1  \n\"…two fairly early manuscripts of Romans have subscriptions (brief notes added by a copyist to the end of a document) stating that the letter was written from Corinth. \"2  \nThe apostle then proceeded from Corinth, by land, clockwise around the Aegean Sea back to Troas in Asia, where he boarded a ship and eventually reached Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, the Jews arrested Paul and imprisoned him (A. D. 57) . Three years later he arrived in Rome as a prisoner, where he ministered for two years (A. D. 60-62) . During this two-year time, Paul wrote the Prison Epistles (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon) . The Romans freed Paul, and he returned to the Aegean area. There he wrote 1 Timothy and Titus, was arrested again, suffered imprisonment in Rome a second time, wrote 2 Timothy, and finally died as a martyr under Nero in A. D. 68.3  \n1 Cf. W. J. Conybeare, in The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, p. 497; James D. G. 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