Acts 18:19

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”

And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

but taking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

“And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, saying that things made with hands are not gods.

When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Now after calming the crowd, the city clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.

And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus:

As I exhorted you when going to Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may command certain ones not to teach a different doctrine,

the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day—and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus.