This is clear from 2 Corinthians 1: 15, 16, where we read: “With this confidence, I was intending to come first to you, so that you might have a second occasion for joy; for I intended to visit you on my way to Macedonia, to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me off to Judea. ”
عزم من آن بود که بر سر راهم به مقدونیه از شما دیدار کنم و از مقدونیه دوباره نزدتان بازگردم تا مرا راهی سفر به یهودیه کنید .‏ »‏