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So they went and apologized to them; then they led them out of the prison and asked them to leave the city.

Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so did many of the leading women and a large group of Greeks who worshiped God.

So he held discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentiles who worshiped God, and also in the public square every day with the people who happened to come by.

So they took Paul, brought him before the city council, the Areopagus, and said, "We would like to know what this new teaching is that you are talking about.

He did this so that they would look for him, and perhaps find him as they felt around for him. Yet God is actually not far from any one of us;

And so Paul left the meeting.

So he left them and went to live in the house of a Gentile named Titius Justus, who worshiped God; his house was next to the synagogue.

So Paul stayed there for a year and a half, teaching the people the word of God.

Instead, he told them as he left, "If it is the will of God, I will come back to you." And so he sailed from Ephesus.

Apollos then decided to go to Achaia, so the believers in Ephesus helped him by writing to the believers in Achaia, urging them to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who through God's grace had become believers.

But some of them were stubborn and would not believe, and before the whole group they said evil things about the Way of the Lord. So Paul left them and took the believers with him, and every day he held discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

This went on for two years, so that all the people who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Gentiles, heard the word of the Lord.

So he sent Timothy and Erastus, two of his helpers, to Macedonia, while he spent more time in the province of Asia.

So he called them all together with others whose work was like theirs and said to them, "Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this work.

Nobody can deny these things. So then, you must calm down and not do anything reckless.

where he stayed three months. He was getting ready to go to Syria when he discovered that there were Jews plotting against him; so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

Sopater son of Pyrrhus, from Berea, went with him; so did Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica; Gaius, from Derbe; Tychicus and Trophimus, from the province of Asia; and Timothy.

Paul had decided to sail on by Ephesus, so as not to lose any time in the province of Asia. He was in a hurry to arrive in Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost, if at all possible.

So I solemnly declare to you this very day: if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible.

So keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock which the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he made his own through the blood of his Son.