Twelve (Ezell online edition).
After being instructed and receiving Christian baptism in Damascus, Paul went to "Arabia" (probably the desert of Transjordan) for a short time before returning to Damascus for three years until he was driven out to Tarsus, probably in AD 40. Several years later, Barnabas brought Paul to Antioch in Syria (Acts 11), where they ministered together for a year. For the next 10 years, Paul was engaged in three lengthy missionary journeys to Anatolia and Greece, of which the second journey included an 18 month stay in Corinth and the third included two to three years in Ephesus on the Aegean Sea. It was during this period that Paul wrote letters to churches he had previously founded and could not now visit in person, and some of these letters have been preserved in the New Testament. Paul was especially concerned that he be able to protect his understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus from alteration by Jewish practices or on the basis of Hellenistic religious and philosophical ideas. He instructed the Christian communities he founded in ethical behavior, cor
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