Yochanan to the seven Congregations which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and shalom, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his Throne;
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had Commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Then there arose certain of the Synagogue, which is called the Synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that YY shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Ashur, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashur took Shomron, and carried Yisrael away into Ashur, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Saying, I am Alef and Tav, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven Congregations which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Yerushalayim the day of Shavuot.
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The Elohim of glory appeared unto our father Avraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
Therefore the anger of YY was hot against Yisrael, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Yisrael served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Bilam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the Temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.