Paul traveled through the Interior of the province. He took the less traveled but shorter mountainous route. Ephesus was on the coast, near sea level. There he found some disciples. These disciples BELIEVED in Christ as the Messiah, yet did not have a complete knowledge of him, and they had not received "Christian baptism" (Acts 19:3). We do not have enough facts to get the whole picture of their exact situation. They had been baptized with John's baptism - after the Great Commission had been given, and were likely Jews. Some connect them with Apollos (Acts 18:25), and think he had baptized them with John's baptism.

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Old Testament