Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are living as foreigners scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen
John, to the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to y’all from God, who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who in the presence of his throne;
where he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul visited them,
However, some members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), including both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and began to argue with Stephen.
I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Now we don’t want y’all to be uninformed, siblings, about our oppression that happened in Asia: that we were incredibly burdened, beyond our strength, so much that we even despaired of life itself.
Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
There is danger not only that our enterprise will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be considered worthless, and the goddess herself who is worshipped throughout Asia and the whole world will be taken down from her glorious splendor.”
“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “Y’all must listen to me: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
Therefore YHWH’s anger burned against Israel, and ʜᴇ sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. The children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim for eight years.
because they didn’t meet y’all with bread and with water on the way when y’all came out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse y’all.
Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
While I was doing this, they came upon me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or any disturbance. But some Jews from the province of Asia
We boarded a ship from Adramyttium which was about to sail to places along the coast of Asia. Then we put to sea, along with Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, who was with us.