So he sent Timothy and Erastus, two of his helpers, to Macedonia, while he spent more time in the province of Asia.

My host Gaius, in whose house the church meets, sends you his greetings; Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.

Sopater son of Pyrrhus, from Berea, went with him; so did Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica; Gaius, from Derbe; Tychicus and Trophimus, from the province of Asia; and Timothy.

(They said this because they had seen Trophimus from Ephesus with Paul in the city, and they thought that Paul had taken him into the Temple.)

We sailed from there and arrived off Chios the next day. A day later we came to Samos, and the following day we reached Miletus.

From Miletus Paul sent a message to Ephesus, asking the elders of the church to meet him.

He is anxious to see you all and is very upset because you had heard that he was sick.

Indeed he was sick and almost died. But God had pity on him, and not only on him but on me, too, and spared me an even greater sorrow.