25 These he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Ar'temis, brought no little business to the craftsmen. There he found some disciples.Ĩ And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, arguing and pleading about the kingdom of God.Ģ3 About that time there arose no little stir concerning the Way. Timoteus also worked in Ephesus (1 Tim 1:3).Īcts 19 1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus. The letter to the Ephesians was written between 61 and 63, when Paul was in arrest in Rome. It had a theater with 25,000 places, the seventh wonder of the world. This goddess was a great source of trade. With the temple of Àrtemis (Greek), known as the great goddess Diana (Roman), the goddess of fertility. Ephesus was a strategic, religious and territorial post. The city was near the sea Egen, connected to the river Caister.
In 133 BC, Ephesus was declared the capital of the Roman province of Asia, but archaeological research shows that Ephesus was already an urban center before 1000 BC when it was occupied by the Ionians.įrom Ephesus went roads that gave access to the big cities in that province. A total population estimated at about 400,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. In the time of Paul, Ephesus was in Anatolia, the present Turkey. Bible study of Ephesians Ephesians 1:1-14
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