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It was a major port city and a significant center of trade and culture in the Roman Empire. Ephesus was renowned for its grand architecture, including the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The city was also known for its theater, which could hold up to 25,000 spectators, and its bustling marketplace, the Agora. Biblical Significance: Ephesus holds a prominent place in the New Testament as a key location in the early Christian church. The Apostle Paul visited Ephesus during his missionary journeys and spent a considerable amount of time there, establishing a strong Christian community. The city is mentioned multiple times in the New Testament, particularly in the Book of Acts and the Pauline Epistles. Paul's Ministry in Ephesus: Paul's ministry in Ephesus is detailed in <a href="/bsb/acts/19.htm">Acts 19</a>. Upon arriving in the city, Paul encountered some disciples who had only received John's baptism. He explained the full gospel to them, and they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and received the Holy Spirit (<a href="/acts/19.htm">Acts 19:1-7</a>). Paul then preached boldly in the synagogue for three months and later taught daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus for two years, so that "all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord" (<a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Acts 19:10</a>). During his time in Ephesus, Paul performed many miracles, and "God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul" (<a href="/acts/19-11.htm">Acts 19:11</a>). This led to a significant number of conversions, and many who practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly, demonstrating the transformative power of the gospel (<a href="/acts/19-19.htm">Acts 19:19</a>). The Riot in Ephesus: Paul's success in Ephesus also led to opposition. A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, stirred up a riot against Paul, fearing that the spread of Christianity would diminish the worship of Artemis and harm their trade (<a href="/acts/19-23.htm">Acts 19:23-27</a>). The uproar led to a chaotic assembly in the theater, but the city clerk eventually calmed the crowd and dismissed the assembly (<a href="/acts/19-35.htm">Acts 19:35-41</a>). The Epistle to the Ephesians: Paul later wrote a letter to the church in Ephesus, known as the Epistle to the Ephesians. This letter emphasizes the spiritual blessings in Christ, the unity of the church, and the importance of living a life worthy of the calling received. Key themes include the grace of God, the mystery of the gospel, and the armor of God (<a href="/ephesians/6-10.htm">Ephesians 6:10-18</a>). The Church in Ephesus in Revelation: The church in Ephesus is one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation. In <a href="/revelation/2.htm">Revelation 2:1-7</a>, the church is commended for its hard work, perseverance, and rejection of false apostles. However, it is admonished for having forsaken its first love and is called to repent and do the works it did at first (<a href="/revelation/2-4.htm">Revelation 2:4-5</a>). Legacy: Ephesus remained an important center for Christianity for several centuries. The city hosted the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, which affirmed the title of Theotokos for Mary, the mother of Jesus. Today, the ruins of Ephesus are a significant archaeological site, attracting visitors from around the world who seek to understand its historical and biblical significance.<a name="hit" id="hit"></a><div class="vheading2">Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary</div>Ephesusdesirable<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div>Ephesus(permitted), the capital of the Roman province of Asia, and an illustrious city in the district of Ionia, nearly opposite the island of Samos. Buildings. --Conspicuous at the head of the harbor of Ephesus was the great temple of Diana or Artemis, the tutelary divinity of the city. This building was raised on immense substructions, in consequence of the swampy nature of the ground. The earlier temple, which had been begun before the Persian war, was burnt down in the night when Alexander the Great was born; and another structure, raise by the enthusiastic co-operation of all the inhabitants of "Asia," had taken its place. The magnificence of this sanctuary was a proverb throughout the civilized world. In consequence of this devotion the city of Ephesus was called neokoros, (<a href="/acts/19-35.htm">Acts 19:35</a>) or "warden" of Diana. Another consequence of the celebrity of Diana's worship at Ephesus was that a large manufactory grew up there of portable shrines, which strangers purchased, and devotees carried with them on journeys or set up in the houses. The theatre , into which the mob who had seized on Paul, (<a href="/acts/19-29.htm">Acts 19:29</a>) rushed, was capable of holding 25,000 or 30,000 persons, and was the largest ever built by the Greeks. The stadium or circus, 685 feet long by 200 wide, where the Ephesians held their shows, is probably referred to by Paul as the place where he "fought with beasts at Ephesus." (<a href="/1_corinthians/15-32.htm">1 Corinthians 15:32</a>) Connection with Christianity --The Jews were established at Ephesus in considerable numbers. (<a href="/acts/2-9.htm">Acts 2:9</a>; <a href="/acts/6-9.htm">6:9</a>) It is here and here only that we find disciples of John the Baptist explicitly mentioned after the ascension of Christ. (<a href="/acts/18-25.htm">Acts 18:25</a>; <a href="/acts/19-3.htm">19:3</a>) The first seeds of Christian truth were possibly sown here immediately after the great Pentecost. (<a href="/acts/2-1.htm">Acts 2:1</a>) ... St. Paul remained in the place more than two years, (<a href="/acts/19-8.htm">Acts 19:8,10</a>; <a href="/acts/20-31.htm">20:31</a>) during which he wrote the First Epistle to the Corinthians. At a later period Timothy was set over the disciples, as we learn from the two epistles addressed to him. Among St. Paul's other companions, two, Trophimus and Tychicus, were natives of Asia, (<a href="/acts/20-4.htm">Acts 20:4</a>) and the latter was probably, (<a href="/2_timothy/4-12.htm">2 Timothy 4:12</a>) the former certainly, (<a href="/acts/21-29.htm">Acts 21:29</a>) a native of Ephesus. Present condition --The whole place is now utterly desolate, with the exception of the small Turkish village at Ayasaluk . The ruins are of vast extent.<a name="amt" id="amt"></a><div class="vheading2">ATS Bible Dictionary</div>EphesusThe capital of Ionia, a celebrated city of Asia Minor, situated near the mouth of the Cayster, about forty miles southeast of Smyrna. It was chiefly celebrated for the worship and temple of Diana, which last was, accounted one of the seven wonders of the world. See <a href="../d/diana.htm">DIANA</a>. Paul first visited Ephesus about A. D. 54, <a href="/context/acts/18-19.htm">Acts 18:19</a>,21. This first brief visit was followed by a longer one towards the close of the same year, and continuing through the two following years, <a href="/acts/19-10.htm">Acts 19:10</a> 20:31. The church thus early established, enjoyed the laborers of Aquila and Priscilla, of Tychicus and Timothy. It was favored with one of the best of Paul's epistles; its elders held an interview with him at Miletus, before he saw Rome, and he is supposed to have visited them after his first imprisonment. Here the apostle John is said to have spent the latter part of his life, and written his gospel and epistles; and having penned Christ's message to them in the isle of Patmos, to have returned and died among them. Christ gives the church at Ephesus a high degree of praise, coupled with a solemn warning, <a href="/context/revelation/2-1.htm">Revelation 2:1-5</a>, which seems not to have prevented its final extinction, though it remained in existence six hundred years. But now its candlestick is indeed removed out of its place. The site of that great and opulent city is desolate. Its harbor has become a pestilential marsh; the lovely and fertile level ground south of the Cayster now languishes under Turkish misrule; and the heights upon its border bear only shapeless ruins. The outlines of the immense theatre, <a href="/context/acts/19-29.htm">Acts 19:29</a>, yet remain in the solid rock; but no vestige of the temple of Diana can be traced. <a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of "the first and greatest metropolis of Asia." It was distinguished for the Temple of Diana (q.v.), who there had her chief shrine; and for its theatre, which was the largest in the world, capable of containing 50,000 spectators. It was, like all ancient theatres, open to the sky. Here were exhibited the fights of wild beasts and of men with beasts. (Comp. <a href="/1_corinthians/4-9.htm">1 Corinthians 4:9</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/9-24.htm">9:24</a>, 25; <a href="/1_corinthians/15-32.htm">15:32</a>.)Many Jews took up their residence in this city, and here the seeds of the gospel were sown immediately after Pentecost (<a href="/acts/2-9.htm">Acts 2:9</a>; <a href="/acts/6-9.htm">6:9</a>). At the close of his second missionary journey (about A.D. 51), when Paul was returning from Greece to Syria (<a href="/acts/18-18.htm">18:18</a>-21), he first visited this city. He remained, however, for only a short time, as he was hastening to keep the feast, probably of Pentecost, at Jerusalem; but he left Aquila and Priscilla behind him to carry on the work of spreading the gospel.During his third missionary journey Paul reached Ephesus from the "upper coasts" (<a href="/acts/19-1.htm">Acts 19:1</a>), i.e., from the inland parts of Asia Minor, and tarried here for about three years; and so successful and abundant were his labours that "all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks" (<a href="/acts/19-10.htm">19:10</a>). Probably during this period the seven churches of the Apocalypse were founded, not by Paul's personal labours, but by missionaries whom he may have sent out from Ephesus, and by the influence of converts returning to their homes.On his return from his journey, Paul touched at Miletus, some 30 miles south of Ephesus (<a href="/acts/20-15.htm">Acts 20:15</a>), and sending for the presbyters of Ephesus to meet him there, he delivered to them that touching farewell charge which is recorded in <a href="/acts/20-18.htm">Acts 20:18</a>-35. Ephesus is not again mentioned till near the close of Paul's life, when he writes to Timothy exhorting him to "abide still at Ephesus" (<a href="/1_timothy/1-3.htm">1 Timothy 1:3</a>).Two of Paul's companions, Trophimus and Tychicus, were probably natives of Ephesus (<a href="/acts/20-4.htm">Acts 20:4</a>; <a href="/acts/21-29.htm">21:29</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/4-12.htm">2 Timothy 4:12</a>). In his second epistle to Timothy, Paul speaks of Onesiphorus as having served him in many things at Ephesus (<a href="/2_timothy/1-18.htm">2 Timothy 1:18</a>). He also "sent Tychicus to Ephesus" (<a href="/2_timothy/4-12.htm">4:12</a>), probably to attend to the interests of the church there. Ephesus is twice mentioned in the Apocalypse (<a href="/2_timothy/1-11.htm">1:11</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/2-1.htm">2:1</a>).The apostle John, according to tradition, spent many years in Ephesus, where he died and was buried.A part of the site of this once famous city is now occupied by a small Turkish village, Ayasaluk, which is regarded as a corruption of the two Greek words, hagios theologos; i.e., "the holy divine." <a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div>EPHESUSef'-e-sus (Ephesos, "desirable"): A city of the Roman province of Asia, near the mouth of the Cayster river, 3 miles from the western coast of Asia Minor, and opposite the island of Samos. With an artificial harbor accessible to the largest ships, and rivaling the harbor at Miletus, standing at the entrance of the valley which reaches far into the interior of Asia Minor, and connected by highways with the chief cities of the province, Ephesus was the most easily accessible city in Asia, both by land and sea. Its location, therefore, favored its religious, political and commercial development, and presented a most advantageous field for the missionary labors of Paul. The city stood upon the sloping sides and at the base of two hills, Prion and Coressus, commanding a beautiful view; its climate was exceptionally fine, and the soil of the valley was unusually fertile. Tradition says that in early times near the place where the mother goddess of the earth was born, the Amazons built a city and a temple in which they might worship. This little city of the Amazons, bearing at different times the names of Samorna, Trachea, Ortygia and Ptelea, flourished until in the early Greek days it aroused the cupidity of Androclus, a prince of Athens. He captured it and made it a Greek city. Still another tradition says that Androclus was its founder. However, under Greek rule the Greek civilization gradually supplanted that of the Orientals, the Greek language was spoken in place of the Asiatic; and the Asiatic goddess of the temple assumed more or less the character of the Greek Artemis. Ephesus, therefore, and all that pertained to it, was a mixture of oriental and Greek Though the early history of the city is obscure, it seems that at different times it was in the hands of the Carians, the Leleges and Ionians; in the early historical period it was one of a league of twelve Ionfan cities. In 560 B.C. it came into the possession of the Lydians; 3 years later, in 557, it was taken by the Persians; and during the following years the Greeks and Persians were constantly disputing for its possession. Finally, Alexander the Great took it; and at his death it fell to Lysimachus, who gave it the name of Arsinoe, from his second wife. Upon the death of Attalus II (Philadelphus), king of Pergamos, it was bequeathed to the Roman Empire; and in 190, when the Roman province of Asia was formed, it became a part of it. Ephesus and Pergamos, the capital of Asia, were the two great rival cities of the province. Though Pergamos was the center of the Roman religion and of the government, Ephesus was the more accessible, the commercial center and the home of the native goddess Diana; and because of its wealth and situation it gradually became the chief city of the province. It is to the temple of Diana, however, that its great wealth and prominence are largely due. Like the city, it dates from the time of the Amazons, yet what the early temple was like we now have no means of knowing, and of its history we know little except that it was seven times destroyed by fire and rebuilt, each time on a scale larger and grander than before. The wealthy king Croesus supplied it with many of its stone columns, and the pilgrims from all the oriental world brought it of their wealth. In time the temple possessed valuable lands; it controlled the fishcries; its priests were the bankers of its enormous revenues. Because of its strength the people stored there their money for safe-keeping; and it became to the ancient world practically all that the Bank of England is to the modern world. In 356 B.C., on the very night when Alexander the Great was born, it was burned; and when he grew to manhood he offered to rebuild it at his own expense if his name might be inscribed upon its portals. This the priests of Ephesus were unwilling to permit, and they politely rejected his offer by saying that it was not fitting for one god to build a temple to another. The wealthy Ephesians themselves undertook its reconstruction, and 220 years passed before its final completion. Not only was the temple of Diana a place of worship, and a treasure-house, but it was also a museum in which the best statuary and most beautiful paintings were preserved. Among the paintings was one by the famous Apelles, a native of Ephesus, representing Alexander the Great hurling a thunderbolt. It was also a sanctuary for the criminal, a kind of city of refuge, for none might be arrested for any crime whatever when within a bowshot of its walls. There sprang up, therefore, about the temple a village in which the thieves and murderers and other criminals made their homes. Not only did the temple bring vast numbers of pilgrims to the city, as does the Kaaba at Mecca at the present time, but it employed hosts of people apart from the priests and priestesses; among them were the large number of artisans who manufactured images of the goddess Diana, or shrines to sell to the visiting strangers. Such was Ephesus when Paul on his 2nd missionary journey in Acts (18:19-21) first visited the city, and when, on his 3rd journey (19:8-10; 20:31), he remained there for two years preaching in the synagogue (19:8, 10), in the school of Tyrannus (19:9) and in private houses (20:20). Though Paul was probably not the first to bring Christianity to Ephesus, for Jews had long lived there (2:9; 6:9), he was the first to make progress against the worship of Diana. As the fame of his teachings was carried by the pilgrims to their distant homes, his influence extended to every part of Asia Minor. In time the pilgrims, with decreasing faith in Diana, came in fewer numbers; the sales of the shrines of the goddess fell off; Diana of the Ephesians was no longer great; a Christian church was rounded there and flourished, and one of its first leaders was the apostle John. Finally in 262 A.D., when the temple of Diana was again burned, its influence had so far departed that it was never again rebuilt. Diana was dead. Ephesus became a Christian city, and in 341 A.D. a council of the Christian church was held there. The city itself soon lost its importance and decreased in population. The sculptured stones of its great buildings, which were no longer in use and were falling to ruins, were carried away to Italy, and especially to Constantinople for the great church of Saint Sophia. In 1308 the Turks took possession of the little that remained of the city, and deported or murdered its inhabitants. The Cayster river, overflowing its banks, gradually covered with its muddy deposit the spot where the temple of Diana had once stood, and at last its very site was forgotten. The small village of Ayasaluk, 36 miles from Smyrna on the Aidin R. R., does not mark the site of the ancient city of Ephesus, yet it stands nearest to its ruins. The name Ayasaluk is the corruption of three Greek words meaning "the Holy Word of God." Passing beyond the village one comes to the ruins of the old aqueduct, the fallen city walls, the so-called church of John or the baths, the Turkish fort which is sometimes called Paul's prison, the huge theater which was the scene of the riot of Paul's time, but which now, with its marble torn away, presents but a hole in the side of the hill Prion. In 1863 Mr. J. T. Wood, for the British Museum, obtained permission from the Turkish government to search for the site of the lost temple of Diana. During the eleven years of his excavations at Ephesus, USD80,000 were spent, and few cities of antiquity have been more thoroughly explored. The city wall of Lysimachus was found to be 36,000 ft. in length, enclosing an area of 1,027 acres. It was 10 1/2 ft. thick, and strengthened by towers at intervals of 100 ft. The six gates which pierced the wall are now marked by mounds of rubbish. The sites and dimensions of the various public buildings, the streets, the harbor, and the foundations of many of the private houses were ascertained, and numerous inscriptions and sculptures and coins were discovered. Search, however, did not reveal the site of the temple until January 1, 1870, after six years of faithful work. Almost by accident it was then found in the valley outside the city walls, several feet below the present surface. Its foundation, which alone remained, enabled Mr. Wood to reconstruct the entire temple plan. The temple was built upon a foundation which was reached by a flight of ten steps. The building itself was 425 ft. long and 220 ft. wide; each of its 127 pillars which supported the roof of its colonnade was 60 ft. high; like the temples of Greece, its interior was open to the sky. For a further description of the temple, see Mr. Wood's excellent book, Discoveries at Ephesus. E. J. Banks<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2181.htm">2181. Ephesos -- Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor</a> ... Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Ephesos Phonetic Spelling: (ef'-es-os) Short Definition: Ephesus Definition ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2181.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/2179.htm">2179. Ephesinos -- of Ephesus.</a> ... 2178, 2179. Ephesinos. 2180 . of Ephesus. Transliteration: Ephesinos Phonetic Spelling: (ef-es-ee'-nos) Short Definition: Ephesus. ... of Ephesus. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2179.htm - 5k<a href="/greek/5211.htm">5211. Humenaios -- Hymenaeus, a heretical teacher at Ephesus</a> ... Hymenaeus, a heretical teacher at Ephesus. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Humenaios Phonetic Spelling: (hoo-men-ah'-yos) Short Definition ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5211.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/5372.htm">5372. Philetos -- "worthy of love," Philetus, an erring Christian ...</a> ... 5371, 5372. Philetos. 5373 . "worthy of love," Philetus, an erring Christian at Ephesus. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Philetos Phonetic ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5372.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/2180.htm">2180. Ephesios -- Ephesian</a> ... Ephesian. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: Ephesios Phonetic Spelling: (ef-es'-ee-os) Short Definition: Ephesian Definition: Ephesian, of Ephesus. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2180.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/1122.htm">1122. grammateus -- a writer, scribe</a> ... a scribe, town-clerk, man of learning Definition: (a) in Jerusalem, a scribe, one learned in the Jewish Law, a religious teacher, (b) at Ephesus, the town-clerk ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1122.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4630.htm">4630. Skeuas -- Sceva, a Jewish chief priest</a> ... Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Skeuas Phonetic Spelling: (skyoo-as') Short Definition: Sceva Definition: Sceva, an inhabitant of Ephesus. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4630.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3531.htm">3531. Nikolaites -- a Nicolaitan, a follower of Nicolaus</a> ... Phonetic Spelling: (nik-ol-ah-ee'-tace) Short Definition: a Nicolaitan Definition: a Nicolaitan, possibly a follower of Nicolaus (a heretic at Ephesus). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3531.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/5161.htm">5161. Trophimos -- Trophimus, a Christian</a> ... Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Trophimos Phonetic Spelling: (trof'-ee-mos) Short Definition: Trophimus Definition: Trophimus, a Christian of Ephesus in Asia. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5161.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3963.htm">3963. Patmos -- Patmos, an island in the Aegean Sea</a> ... Transliteration: Patmos Phonetic Spelling: (pat'-mos) Short Definition: Patmos Definition: Patmos, a small rocky island in the Aegean sea, south-west of Ephesus ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3963.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/bullinger/commentary_on_revelation/ephesus.htm">Ephesus</a> ... EPHESUS. In the Epistle to the Assembly at Ephesus, the reference is to Exodus: to God's love in choosing them out of Egypt, and them making them a nation. ... //christianbookshelf.org/bullinger/commentary on revelation/ephesus.htm<a href="/library/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_27_ephesus.htm">Ephesus</a> ... Lesson 27 Ephesus. [This chapter is based on Acts 19:1-20.] While Apollos was preaching at Corinth, Paul fulfilled his promise to return to Ephesus. ... //christianbookshelf.org/white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 27 ephesus.htm<a href="/library/unknown/the_decretals/polycrates_bishop_of_ephesus.htm">Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus.</a> ... Fragments from His Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church. Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus. [ad130-196.] This author ... //christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/polycrates bishop of ephesus.htm<a href="/library/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_136_ephesus_rev_2_17.htm">Ephesus. Rev 2:1,7</a> ... Hymn 136 EPHESUS. Rev 2:1,7. John Newton 8,8,8,8. EPHESUS. Rev 2:1,7. Thus saith the LORD to Ephesus,. And thus he speaks to some of us; ... //christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney hymns/hymn 136 ephesus rev 2 17.htm<a href="/library/vincent/the_commonitory_of_vincent_of_lerins/chapter_xxx_the_council_of.htm">The Council of Ephesus. ...</a> ... Chapter XXX. The Council of Ephesus.? The Council of Ephesus. ... after the Council of Ephesus, and before Cyril's death. Cyril died in 444. ... /.../vincent/the commonitory of vincent of lerins/chapter xxx the council of.htm<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_fight_with_wild_beasts.htm">The Fight with Wild Beasts at Ephesus</a> ... THE ACTS CHAP. XIII TO END THE FIGHT WITH WILD BEASTS AT EPHESUS. ... Paul's long residence in Ephesus indicates the importance of the position. ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the fight with wild beasts.htm<a href="/library/naylor/heart_talks/talk_thirty-four_in_christ_and.htm">In Christ and in Ephesus</a> ... TALK THIRTY-FOUR. IN CHRIST AND IN EPHESUS. ... What did it mean to be in Ephesus? Ephesus was one of the great centers of paganism. ... //christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk thirty-four in christ and.htm<a href="/library/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/letter_xxxiii_to_the_synod.htm">Letter xxxiii. To the Synod of Ephesus .</a> ... Letter XXXIII. To the Synod of Ephesus . To the Synod of Ephesus [331] . Leo, bishop, to the holy Synod which is assembled at Ephesus. ... /.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter xxxiii to the synod.htm<a href="/library/dick/lectures_on_the_acts_of_the_apostles/lecture_xxii_paul_in_ephesus.htm">Paul in Ephesus.</a> ... PAUL IN EPHESUS. Chap. ... At the time of his appearance in Ephesus, he was imperfectly instructed in the religion of Christ, for he knew only the baptism of John. ... /.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxii paul in ephesus.htm<a href="/library/dick/lectures_on_the_acts_of_the_apostles/lecture_xxiii_the_uproar_in.htm">The Uproar in Ephesus.</a> ... THE UPROAR IN EPHESUS. Chap. ... This triumph of the truth was displayed in the transactions at Ephesus, which are, recorded in the preceding part of the chapter. ... /.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxiii the uproar in.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/e/ephesus.htm">Ephesus (20 Occurrences)</a> ... During his third missionary journey Paul reached Ephesus from the "upper coasts" (Acts 19:1), ie, from the inland parts of Asia Minor, and tarried here for ... /e/ephesus.htm - 24k<a href="/topical/o/onesiphorus.htm">Onesiphorus (2 Occurrences)</a> ... ashamed of my chain; but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me." Onesiphorus was one of the Christians of the church in Ephesus; and the ... /o/onesiphorus.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/a/apollos.htm">Apollos (11 Occurrences)</a> ... He came to Ephesus (about AD 49), where he spake "boldly" in the synagogue (18:26), although he did not know as yet that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. ... /a/apollos.htm - 16k<a href="/topical/h/hermogenes.htm">Hermogenes (1 Occurrence)</a> ... being brought before the emperor's supreme court, to be tried on a charge now involving the death penalty, or whether it was at some previous time in Ephesus. ... /h/hermogenes.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/a/artemis.htm">Artemis (5 Occurrences)</a> ... di-an'-a (Artemis "prompt," "safe"): A deity of Asiatic origin, the mother goddess of the earth, whose seat of worship was the temple in Ephesus, the capital ... /a/artemis.htm - 14k<a href="/topical/a/aquila.htm">Aquila (7 Occurrences)</a> ... On Paul's departure from Corinth after eighteen months, Aquila and his wife accompanied him to Ephesus, where they remained, while he proceeded to Syria (Acts ... /a/aquila.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/d/diana.htm">Diana (5 Occurrences)</a> ... Her most noted temple was that at Ephesus. It was built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. ... /d/diana.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/e/ephesian.htm">Ephesian (4 Occurrences)</a> ... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city Of Ionia, in Asia Minor. 2. (n.) A native of Ephesus. ... /e/ephesian.htm - 8k<a href="/topical/m/miletus.htm">Miletus (3 Occurrences)</a> ... (Miletum, 2 Timothy 4:20), a seaport town and the ancient capital of Ionia, about 36 miles south of Ephesus. ... 28) of Ephesus recorded in Acts 20:15-35. ... /m/miletus.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/t/tychicus.htm">Tychicus (5 Occurrences)</a> ... 20:4). He is alluded to also in Colossians 4:7, Titus 3:12, and 2 Timothy 4:12 as having been with Paul at Rome, whence he sent him to Ephesus, probably for ... /t/tychicus.htm - 14k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Council-of-Ephesus.html">What happened at the Council of Ephesus? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/receive-Spirit-Acts-19.html">Why had the disciples in Ephesus not received the Holy Spirit (Acts 19:1-7)? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/church-in-Ephesus.html">What was Jesus' message to the church in Ephesus in Revelation? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Ephesus (20 Occurrences)<a href="/acts/18-19.htm">Acts 18:19</a> He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/18-21.htm">Acts 18:21</a> but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/18-24.htm">Acts 18:24</a> Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/19-1.htm">Acts 19:1</a> It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/19-17.htm">Acts 19:17</a> This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/19-26.htm">Acts 19:26</a> You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/19-28.htm">Acts 19:28</a> And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesus. (ASV BBE)<a href="/acts/19-34.htm">Acts 19:34</a> But when they saw that he was a Jew, all of them with one voice went on crying out for about two hours, Great is Diana of Ephesus. (BBE)<a href="/acts/19-35.htm">Acts 19:35</a> When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus? (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/20-16.htm">Acts 20:16</a> For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/20-17.htm">Acts 20:17</a> From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/21-29.htm">Acts 21:29</a> For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple. (ASV)<a href="/1_corinthians/15-32.htm">1 Corinthians 15:32</a> If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/16-8.htm">1 Corinthians 16:8</a> But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/1-1.htm">Ephesians 1:1</a> Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/1-3.htm">1 Timothy 1:3</a> As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/1-18.htm">2 Timothy 1:18</a> (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/4-12.htm">2 Timothy 4:12</a> But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/revelation/1-11.htm">Revelation 1:11</a> saying, " What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies : to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/revelation/2-1.htm">Revelation 2:1</a> "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things: (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><a href="/topical/e/ephesus.htm">Ephesus</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--apocalyptic_message_to.htm">Ephesus: Apocalyptic Message To</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--apollos_visits_and_preaches_in.htm">Ephesus: Apollos Visits and Preaches In</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--onesiphorus_lives_at.htm">Ephesus: Onesiphorus Lives At</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--paul_sends_tychicus_to.htm">Ephesus: Paul Sends Tychicus To</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--paul_visits_and_preaches_in.htm">Ephesus: Paul Visits and Preaches In</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--paul's_epistle_to_the_ephesians.htm">Ephesus: Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--sceva's_sons_attempt_to_expel_a_demon_in.htm">Ephesus: Sceva's Sons Attempt to Expel a Demon In</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--the_congregation_at.htm">Ephesus: The Congregation At</a><a href="/topical/naves/e/ephesus--timothy_directed_by_paul_to_remain_at.htm">Ephesus: Timothy Directed by Paul to Remain At</a><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><a href="/topical/o/onesiphorus.htm">Onesiphorus (2 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/apollos.htm">Apollos (11 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/h/hermogenes.htm">Hermogenes (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/a/artemis.htm">Artemis (5 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/aquila.htm">Aquila (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/d/diana.htm">Diana (5 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/e/ephesian.htm">Ephesian (4 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/m/miletus.htm">Miletus (3 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/t/tychicus.htm">Tychicus (5 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