"And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye yourselves know, from the first day that. set foot in Asia, after what manner. was with you all the time"Ye yourselves know": "There is emphasis on you as though someone somewhere had attacked Paul, and so Paul appeals to these men's own personal experience of Paul they would know the truth" (Reese p. 744). This is the same type of language that Paul uses in 1 Thessalonians 2:1 ff. "From the first day": "To know about all of Paul's ministry in Asia, from its earliest days these men who are now elders must have been among the first fruits of the gospel in Ephesus" (Reese p. 744). "I was with you all the time": Indicating that Paul was very accessible to the Christians in Ephesus. This suggests an intimate and close relationship with the brethren in that city. The same truth can be inferred from Acts 19:10.

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