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he came to Ephesus - the capital of the Roman province of Asia. (See on Introduction to Ephesians). It was a sail, right across from the west to the east side of the Aegean Sea, of some eight or ten days, with a fair wind.
left them there - Aquila and Priscilla.
but he himself entered into the synagogue - merely taking advantage of the vessel putting in there.
and reasoned with the Jews - the tense here not being the usual one denoting continuous action (as in Act 17:2; Act 18:4), but that expressing a transient act. He had been forbidden to preach the word in Asia (Act 16:6), but he would not consider that as precluding this passing exercise of his ministry when Providence brought him to its capital; nor did it follow that the prohibition was still in force.