By the first century CE, Ephesus was already ancient. Established sometime around 1000 BCE in what is now Turkey on with ...

On the Eastern side of the Aegean in Turkey his base is the major city of Ephesus which precisely at the time that Paul is arriving there is about to become the most important metropolis of all Asia.

Paul traveled widely in the Eastern Mediterranean world ... If you just used Acts as a source of places to check, you would immediately hit names like Corinth, Philippi, Ephesus, Thessaloniki, and ...

Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone ... or in Asia Minor, in places like Ephesus or Smyrna. In either case, Luke would have been in touch with ...