World English Bible · with a gazetteer of place names
The Acts of the Apostles is the most geographically expansive book in the Christian Bible. Its programmatic verse 1:8 — ‘in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth’ — is itself a map. The narrative moves outward from a Jerusalem upper room through the Levant, across Asia Minor, into Macedonia and Achaia, and finally to Rome. The Pentecost roll-call of chapter 2 names regions reaching from Parthia (modern Iran) to Libya, foreshadowing the journeys to come.
This edition is being built one chapter at a time. Each chapter pairs the text of the World English Bible (public domain) with a map of the places named in that chapter. Maritime and overland journeys are traced as routes. Identifications follow the Anchor Bible Dictionary.
Solid pins denote identified sites; lighter pins denote probable identifications; outlined pins denote conjectural ones.