Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.
When a person’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.
Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.
This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.
The city was filled with the uproar, and the crowd rushed to the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.
But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, the disciples would not let him.
So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together.
When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.