1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1. 17 map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1. 18 19 map For location see JP1-E2; JP2-E2; JP3-E2. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 sn Chios was an island in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Asia Minor with a city of the same name. 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 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. 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 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. 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 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). 115 116 117 118 119 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. 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139