Paul & the Elders of Ephesus: I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Acts 20:29

Paul undertook his third missionary journey between approximately 53 and 58 AD. During this period, he wrote several letters, including the two epistles to the Church in Corinth and the epistle to the Church in Rome. This journey was particularly notable for the founding of the Church in Ephesus, where the Apostle to the Gentiles remained for at least two years, as recounted in the Book of Acts. The Book of Acts also relates that the Church in the city of Ephesus was very important to Paul, as the Church in Corinth had been during his second missionary journey. Among other things, the Book of Acts relates that Paul performed unusual miracles in the city of Ephesus and that a large number of its inhabitants converted to the faith.
After founding the church in Ephesus, Paul traveled to Macedonia and then on to Greece, where he stayed for three months before returning to Macedonia. After his time in Macedonia, Paul sailed to Troas and eventually reached Miletus.
Upon arriving in the city of Miletus, Paul summoned the elders of Ephesus for a meeting. And when the elders arrived in Miletus, the apostle Paul gave his final pastoral address, that is, his last address to the elders, to give them his final instructions regarding the spiritual direction of that church. And as Paul said goodbye, he warned them: "I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them" Acts 20:29.
Paul knew about the problem of heresies and sophistry, and that this was the seed of what was opposed to the Kingdom of God, the deception directed at Christians to obtain honors and dishonest gains. For just as there are two paths for man, righteousness and sin, heresy, that is, the teaching of error, is opposed to the wisdom of God. After giving his last words, Paul commended the elders to God, and they all embraced and greeted Paul, because as the apostle had prophesied to them, they would not see him again. But Paul was not saddened, nor did he give in to fear, because Paul, as a preacher and a person filled with the Holy Spirit, knew that he had to carry out a mission ordained by Jesus: to bring the Kingdom of God to the ends of the earth.

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