²³ salute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,

²² and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him -- Timotheus and Erastus -- he himself stayed a time in Asia.

¹⁴ I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius --

²⁰ Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;

¹ The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth!

² beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

³ for I rejoiced exceedingly, brethren coming and testifying of the truth in thee, even as thou in truth dost walk;

⁴ greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

⁵ Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

⁶ who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

²⁹ and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travellers.

⁴ And there were accompanying him unto Asia, Sopater of Berea, and of Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus, and of Asiatics Tychicus and Trophimus;