³¹ Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theater.

¹⁰ This went on for two years,^(A) so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia^(B) heard the word of the Lord.^(C)

¹² When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia

⁶ Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia^(A) and Galatia,^(B) having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.^(C)