And having sent to Macedonia two of those who were ministering to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed on for a time in Asia.

Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, the brother.

And Sopater, a Berean, was accompanying him to Asia--also Aristarchus of the Thessalonians, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus, [the] Asians.

For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

And having sailing away from there, on the next day we arrived opposite Chios. The following day we approached to Samos and remained in Trogyllium. The following day we came to Miletus.

Now from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he summoned the elders of the church.

since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick, [and] near death; but God showed mercy [on] him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.