Acts 19:10

10. this continued . . . two years—in addition to the former three months. See on :-. But during some part of this period he must have paid a second unrecorded visit to Corinth, since the one next recorded (see on Acts 19:2) is twice called his third visit (2 Corinthians 12:14; 2 Corinthians 13:1). See on 2 Corinthians 13:1- :, which might seem inconsistent with this. The passage across was quite a short one (see on 2 Corinthians 13:1- :) —Towards the close of this long stay at Ephesus, as we learn from 1 Corinthians 16:8, he wrote his FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS; also (though on this opinions are divided) the EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. (See 1 Corinthians 16:8- : to First Corinthians, and 1 Corinthians 16:8- : to Galatians). And just as at Corinth his greatest success was after his withdrawal to a separate place of meeting (1 Corinthians 16:8- :), so at Ephesus.

so that all they which dwelt in—the Roman province of

Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks—This is the "great door and effectual opened unto him" while resident at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:8- :), which induced him to make it his headquarters for so long a period. The unwearied and varied character of his labors here are best seen in his own subsequent address to the elders of Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:8- :, c.). And thus Ephesus became the "ecclesiastical center for the entire region, as indeed it remained for a very long period" [BAUMGARTEN]. Churches arose at Colosse, Laodicea, and Hierapolis eastward, either through his own labors or those of his faithful helpers whom he sent out in different directions, Epaphras, Archippus, Philemon (Colossians 1:7 Colossians 4:12-17; Philemon 1:23).