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Miletus

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Summary

The port where Paul, hurrying to Jerusalem, summoned the Ephesian elders for the farewell address that is the only speech in Acts delivered to a Christian audience.

  • Among the passages here, Miletus is first named in Acts 20:15: “Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios.”
  • The record places Miletus in Asia Minor.
  • 3 verses name Miletus, in 2 books.

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In Scripture

Verses
3
Books
2
See it on Asia Minor, showing the positions of the Seven Churches→

Near Miletus

Straight-line distances, computed from the gazetteer coordinates.

Where it is

the country around it

Coordinates
37.5000° N, 27.3000° Efind it on the Atlas →
Region
Asia Minor
Kind of place
City
The Great SeaEphesusEphesusMiletus25 km · 16 miN
  • Located: the gazetteer fixes one site
  • Placed: the point stands for an area, or is rounded
Miletus and the country around it, about 100 km across. The Great Sea is a stylized outline drawn for orientation. Every mark sits at the coordinates the gazetteer records for it.
Map of Asia Minor showing the positions of the seven churches of Revelation.
Asia Minor, showing the positions of the Seven Churches: Asia Minor: the coastal and inland cities of Paul's letters and Revelation 2–3.George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915), public domain.Open this plate full size in The Atlas →

Miletus in Scripture

3 verses name it, in 2 books

Open a book to read its mentions here. Text: Berean Standard Bible.

First namedActs 20:15Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios. The day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.Last named2 Timothy 4:20Erastus has remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left sick in Miletus.

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