So they spent<n id="1" /> considerable<n id="2" /> time with the disciples.p>

For<n id="1" /> a period of about forty years he put up with<n id="2" /> them in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

After<n id="1" /> they had spent some time there,<n id="2" /> they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,<n id="1" />

After he spent<n id="1" /> some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia<n id="2" /> and Phrygia,<n id="3" /> strengthening all the disciples.p>

So after sending<n id="1" /> two of his assistants,<n id="2" /> Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia,<n id="3" /> he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.<n id="4" />p>

So they stayed there<n id="1" /> for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified<n id="2" /> to the message<n id="3" /> of his grace, granting miraculous signs<n id="4" /> and wonders to be performed through their hands.

<p class="bodytext">When they arrived, he said to them, &#8220;You yourselves know how I lived<n id="1" /> the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot<n id="2" /> in the province of Asia,<n id="3" />