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map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1.
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map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1.
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map For location see JP1-E2; JP2-E2; JP3-E2.
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sn Chios was an island in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Asia Minor with a city of the same name.
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sn Repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. Note the twofold description of the message. It is a turning to God involving faith in Jesus Christ.
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sn I am innocent. Paul had a clear conscience, since he had faithfully carried out his responsibility of announcing to (the Ephesians) the whole purpose of God.
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sn That he obtained with the blood of his own Son. This is one of only two explicit statements in Luke-Acts highlighting the substitutionary nature of Christ’s death (the other is in Luke 22:19).
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sn These perversions of the truth refer to the kinds of threats that would undermine repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. v. 21). Instead these false teachers would arise from within the Ephesian congregation (cf. 1 John 2:18-19) and would seek to draw the disciples away after them.
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