in Antioch, wrote them: “You all live according to truth, and no heresy has a home among you; indeed, you do not so much as listen to anyone if they speak of anything except concerning Jesus Christ in truth” (Letter to the Ephesians, 6). In verse 3 Jesus explains the perseverance of the Ephesians: they have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. From their earliest days as a church, these Christians had put up with hostility from those who worshiped other gods (Acts 19:23–41). They