By: Thomas Clayton Booher Part 1: read here Part 2: read here Part 3: read here Ephesians 1:18 ....that you may know what is the hope of his calling.... Paul’s first encounter with city of Ephesus is recorded in Acts 18. The events that occurred early in the chapter have a direct bearing on that first visit and more prominently with the letter he later wrote to the Ephesians some time between A.D. 61-63 while a prisoner at Rome under house arrest (Acts 28:16-31:Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20). Paul had met a Jew named Aquila in Corinth . Both were tentmakers so Paul stayed with him and his wife (Priscilla) and worked. As was Paul’s custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and using the scriptures, he explained in a cogent, clear, and coherent manner the person and work of Christ. It was effective because he persuaded both Jews and Greeks (Acts 18:1-5). However, there was opposition, in particular from Jews who ‘blasphemed.’ The nature o...
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