We read of this Epaphras, Colossians 1:7, where he is called Paul's fellow servant, and a faithful minister of Christ: he was with Paul at Rome, Colossians 4:12, but there is no mention of him as a prisoner; but now he was a fellow prisoner with Paul, either in the same place, or upon the same account.
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Philemon 1:23
23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;