“… always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.”
Our New Testament preserves four letters Paul wrote during his first Roman imprisonment. From these epistles and from the last chapter of the book of Acts, we learn that in Rome the authorities allowed him to stay “by himself” under guard for two years in what was probably a rented dwelling, awaiting trial. There, he was able to receive visitors and preach and teach unhindered.
During this period he had both “fellow prisoners” and “fellow workers”. Epaphras was one of the former.
