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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Miletus
About thirty-five miles south of Ephesus, a port in Ionia. Paul, hurrying to be in Jerusalem for Pentecost, called the elders of Ephesus down to Miletus and gave them his farewell, warning of false teachers to come. He later left Trophimus there sick. Silt from the Meander River has since pushed the coast away, and the old theatre now stands miles inland.
About thirty-five miles south of Ephesus, a port in Ionia. Paul, hurrying to be in Jerusalem for Pentecost, called the elders of Ephesus down to Miletus and gave them his farewell, warning of false teachers to come. He later left Trophimus there sick. Silt from the Meander River has since pushed the coast away, and the old theatre now stands miles inland.
Ionian port city about thirty-five miles south of Ephesus. Sailing past Ephesus to save time before Pentecost, Paul summoned that city's elders to Miletus and delivered his farewell address, warning them of false teachers to come (Acts 20:15-38); he later left his sick companion Trophimus there (2 Tim. 4:20). Once a leading Greek city, Miletus was already fading by the Roman period as silt from the Meander River pushed its harbor away from the coast, a well-documented process that has left its ancient theater stranded several miles inland today.
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- theater at Miletus
- Acts 20:15
- Acts 20:17
- 2 Timothy 4:20
