⁷ as you also learned from ^(A)Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is ^(B)a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,

^12 (A)Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always ^(B)laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand ^(C)perfect and ^[a]complete in all the will of God. ¹³ For I bear him witness that he has a great ^[b]zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

Paul at Ephesus

19 And it happened, while ^(A)Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through ^(B)the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples

^8 (A)And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading ^(B)concerning the things of the kingdom of God. ⁹ But ^(C)when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil ^(D)of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. ¹⁰ And ^(E)this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.