Passage

Service remembered in Ephesus

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹⁸(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

2 Timothy 1:18World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The writer asks that the Lord grant mercy to the man whose service in Ephesus the recipient knows well.

The preceding line says this man searched diligently for the writer in Rome and found him.

What does the writer recall about Rome and Ephesus when he asks for mercy for this man?