14. When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
15. We sailed away from there on the next day and reached a point off Chios, and a day later we reached Samos, and on the following day we arrived at Miletus.
16. Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus in order not to lose time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if at all possible, for the day of Pentecost.
17. From Miletus he had the presbyters of the church at Ephesus summoned.
18. When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.