⁹ Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,^(A) Pontus^(B) and Asia,^[a](C)

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,^(A)

To God’s elect,^(B) exiles^(C) scattered^(D) throughout the provinces of Pontus,^(E) Galatia,^(F) Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,^(G)

Greetings and Doxology

⁴ John,

To the seven churches^(A) in the province of Asia:

Grace and peace to you^(B) from him who is, and who was, and who is to come,^(C) and from the seven spirits^[a](D) before his throne,

² There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla,^(A) because Claudius^(B) had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,

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)

Examples of Disloyalty and Loyalty

¹⁵ You know that everyone in the province of Asia^(A) has deserted me,^(B) including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

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)

⁹ Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene^(A) and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia^(B) and Asia^(C)—who began to argue with Stephen.

² In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa^(A) in the province of Elam;^(B) in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal.