having caught Gaius and Aristarchus - disappointed of Paul, as at Thessalonica (Act 17:5, Act 17:6). They are mentioned in Act 20:4; Act 27:2; Rom 16:23; 1Co 1:14; and probably 3Jo 1:1. If it was in the house of Aquila and Priscilla that he found an asylum (see 1Co 16:9), that would explain Rom 16:3, Rom 16:4, where he says of them that “for his life they laid down their own necks” [Howson].
rushed ... into the theatre - a vast pile, whose ruins are even now a wreck of immense grandeur [Sir C. Fellowes, Asia Minor, 1839].