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Acts 20:16
“For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.”
Verse in context — Acts 20
14
When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
15
Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.
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For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
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From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
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When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
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