Greet also the congregation
[that meets] in their house.
[The married couple Aquila and Priscilla are always mentioned together. Four out of six times, the wife, Priscilla, is mentioned first. In Acts, she is called Priscilla, while Paul always uses her formal name Prisca. Paul met Aquila and Priscilla when he came to Corinth during his second missionary journey and worked with them as tentmakers, see . The couple had been forced to flee from Rom because Emperor Claudius expelled all Jews from there around 49 AD. They accompanied Paul when he left Corinth, but remained in Ephesus, see . There they taught Apollos, see . They were still there during Paul's third journey, as they send greetings to the Christians in Corinth in the letter Paul writes from Ephesus, see . Shortly after that, they must have returned to Rom.] Greet my beloved brother
Epenetus,
who was the first
(firstfruits) to come to the Anointed One
(Messiah, Christ) in the Roman province of
Asia [where Ephesus was the capital].
