I do not propose to pay you a visit in passing now, for I hope to stay with you for some time, if the Lord permits.
"Let it be so for the present," Jesus answered, "since it is fitting for us thus to satisfy every claim of religion." Upon this, John consented.
As he took his leave, "I will come back again to you, please God," and then set sail from Ephesus.
Asking that, if he be willing, I may some day at last find the way open to visit you.
But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I shall find out, not what words these men use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;
With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled--
You ought, rather, to say 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.'