Acts 18:22

Acts 18:22. And when he had landed at Caesarea. This Roman capital of Judaea was the usual and most convenient port for travellers journeying to Jerusalem.

And gone up, and saluted the church. ‘Gone up,' that is, from the lowlands surrounding Cæsarea to the highlands in the midst of which Jerusalem was situated. ‘The Church' is, of course, the mother church of Christianity, the congregations of believers in Jerusalem. This was apparently Paul's fourth visit, since his conversion, to the sacred city. He seems only to have remained a short time, and we hear of no events of any importance taking place during his stay. The very vague mention of it in this passage is the only allusion we find to it. He, no doubt, on this occasion met with James and his brother apostles, and recounted to them the progress of the faith in Corinth and Greece.

He went down to Antioch. Geographically speaking strictly correct, the position of Jerusalem lying much higher than Syrian Antioch. Thus terminated his Second Missionary Journey; it had occupied, roughly speaking, three years.