but taking his leave of them, and saying, *I must by all means keep this coming feast in Yerushalayim, but I will return again to you if God wills,* he set sail from Ephesus.
You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Sha'ul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
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 Efesim is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
For Sha'ul 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 Yerushalayim on the day of Shavu`ot.
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.*
saying, *What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.*
*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 menorot says these things: