And also some of the Asian officers, being their friends, having sent to him, implored him not to give himself into the theatre.
And this happened for two years, so as for all those dwelling in Asia to hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
And when we heard these things, both we and those local men urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
But having passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
And a leper comes to him beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying to him, If thou will thou can make me clean.
And the whole city was filled with the confusion. And they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, traveling companions of Paul.
And when Paul wanted to enter in to the crowd, the disciples did not let him.
Indeed therefore some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was confused, and most had not seen why they had come together.