At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.

He began to preach boldly to the crowds about Jesus with accuracy and Priscilla and Aquila, who had accompanied Paul to Ephesus, and were still there, though Paul had departed, correctively instructed the eloquent and brilliant Apollos.

His conversion is commonly assumed to have taken place at Ephesus, though it may have occurred anywhere on the road from Palestine to Rome.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.

Nestorius himself always insisted that his views were orthodox, though they were deemed heretical at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, leading to the Nestorian Schism, when churches supportive of Nestorius broke away from the rest of the Christian Church.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

A minimalist view is that he spent his entire life in the cities of his native Asia Minor and of northern Syria, in particular his home town of Tyana, Ephesus, Aegae, and Antioch, though the letters suggest wider travels, and there seems no reason to deny that, like many wandering philosophers, he at least visited Rome.

There was a great expansion of the cult of Mary after the Council of Ephesus in 431, when her status as Theotokos (" God-bearer ") was confirmed ; this had been a subject of some controversy until then, though mainly for reasons to do with arguments over the nature of Christ.

The distribution of the Ionic Greek dialect in historic times indicates early movement from the mainland of Greece to the Anatolian coast to such sites as Miletus, Ephesus, and Colophon, perhaps as early as 1000 BC, though the contemporaneous evidence is scanty.

The first four Christian centuries are silent regarding the end of the Virgin Mary's life, though it is asserted, without surviving documentation, that the feast of the Dormition was being observed in Jerusalem shortly after the Council of Ephesus.

In, an important evangelist in Ephesus named Apollos is mentioned as one who " taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Neither did he have any share, as was wrongly ascribed to him, in the First Council of Ephesus of 431, though, in consequence of disputes which arose in Armenia between the followers of Nestorius and the disciples of Acathius of Melitene and Rabbula, Isaac and his church did appeal to Constantinople and through Saint Proclus obtained the desired explanations.

: The other two of which the first is " The elder to the elect lady and her children " and the other " The elder unto Gaius the beloved whom I love in truth ," are said to be the work of John the presbyter to the memory of whom another sepulchre is shown at Ephesus to the present day, though some think that there are two memorials of this same John the evangelist.

He defended Nestorius against Saint Cyril when the former was charged with heresy, though was not himself present at the Council of Ephesus.

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes as ecumenical various councils held later than the First Council of Ephesus ( after which churches out of communion with the Holy See because of the Nestorian Schism did not participate ), later than the Council of Chalcedon ( after which there was no participation by churches that rejected Dyophysitism ), later than the Second Council of Nicaea ( after which there was no participation by the Eastern Orthodox Church ), and later than the Fifth Council of the Lateran ( after which groups that adhered to Protestantism did not participate ).

It confirms that he did not suffer martyrdom and died of old age in Ephesus.

Though he did not attend personally, he sent delegates to the First Council of Ephesus of 431, in which the Nestorians were condemned.

observing Easter on the Jewish Passover date of 14 Nisan, as did Polycrates of Ephesus et al., writing On the Passover and other works, which were destroyed after Easter observance was fixed on Sunday and they were declared heretics.

However, the Ionians remained committed to their rebellion and the Persians did not seem to follow up their victory at Ephesus.

However, the cities that Herodotus describes Daurises as besieging were on the Hellespont, which ( by Herodotus's own reckoning ) did not become involved in the revolt until after Ephesus.

The frieze is sometimes omitted — for example, on the portico of the caryatides of the Erechtheum — and probably did not exist as a structure in the temple of Diana at Ephesus.

While the apostle Paul was in Ephesus, he found disciples there and discovered that they did not know of the existence of the Holy Spirit and had only received John the Baptist ’ s baptism.

In his book Adversus Haereses, which survives in a Latin version, Irenaeus mentions " Papias, the hearer of John, and a companion of Polycarp " ( Book V, chapter xxxiii ), without indicating that this was another John than " John, the disciple of the Lord, who also had leaned upon His breast did himself publish a Gospel during his residence at Ephesus in Asia.

Non-Chalcedonianism is the view ( s ) of those churches that accepted the teachings of the First Council of Ephesus of 431, but did not accept, for varying reasons, the teachings of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon that followed in 451.

While the Church of the East ( i. e., Nestorian Christianity ) also did not accept the Council of Chalcedon, in addition to that it rejected the First Council of Ephesus as well and has, according to the traditional interpretation, an opposite Christology to the Oriental Orthodox.

Because of the decision of the Council of Ephesus, Cyprus maintained its independence from the Antioch division, and the arrangement did not apply outside the empire, where separate " catholicates " developed in Mesopotamia and Armenia.

While the Council of Ephesus did not answer the question of how the human and divine interrelated in the person of Christ, it did seem to reject any attempted answer that stressed the duality of Christ's natures to the expense of his unity as a single hypostasis ( understood to mean " person ").

In Revelation, on the Greek island of Patmos, Jesus Christ instructs his servant John to: " Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

The voice says: " Write down what you see and send the book to the Churches in these seven cities: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea ".

When the character of Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors tells his servant to go out and buy some rope, the servant ( Dromio ) replies, " I buy a thousand pounds a year!

John, one day, was going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, he then rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, " Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the Truth, is within .” He wrote three epistles while living in Ephesus, and he also completed the Gospel of John during this period.

The Spartan navarch Lysander refused to be lured out of Ephesus to do battle with Alcibiades.

* The Spartan admiral Lysander refuses to be lured out of Ephesus to do battle with Alcibiades.

Later, John, the Lord's disciple --- the one who lay on his lap --- also set out the gospel while living at Ephesus in Asia Minor ".

The patriarch John, having meanwhile gained time for thought and consultation, came out and mounted the pulpit, saying, " There is no need of disturbance or tumult ; nothing has been done against the faith ; we recognize for orthodox all the councils which have confirmed the decrees of Nicaea, and principally these three-Constantinople, Ephesus, and the great council of Chalcedon ".

Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus.

Antipholus of Ephesus dispatches Dromio of Ephesus to purchase a rope so that he can beat his wife Adriana for locking him out, then is accosted by Angelo, who tells him " I thought to have ta ' en you at the Porpentine " and asks to be reimbursed for the chain.

He also refers to Troas when he asks his fellow worker Timothy out of Ephesus, to get his coat there.

Then the couple started out to accompany Paul when he proceeded to Syria, but stopped at Ephesus in the Roman province of Asia, now part of modern Turkey.

Seeking to draw the Spartans out to fight, Antiochus sailed out towards Ephesus with 10 triremes.

The structure for the role of women in the Church at Ephesus is laid out as well as a detailed list of qualifications for who can and cannot serve as Elders and Deacons in the church.