² where he met Aquila, a Jewish man from Pontus. Not long before this, Aquila had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Emperor Claudius had ordered the Jewish people to leave Rome.^[a] Paul went to see Aquila and Priscilla

¹⁶ I pray that the Lord will be kind to the family of Onesiphorus. He often cheered me up and wasn't ashamed of me when I was put in jail.

¹⁷ Then after he arrived in Rome, he searched everywhere until he found me.