Paul in Ephesus

19 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions [^Cthe mountainous northern route through the interior of Phrygia; 18:23] to Ephesus [^Ca major city in western Asia Minor; 18:23]. There he found some ·followers [disciples] ² and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit ·when [or after] you believed?”

They said, “We have never even heard ·of [or that there is] a Holy Spirit.”