1 Corinthians 16:19

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

Aquila and Prisca ... See my Commentary on Romans, pp. 511-513 for comment on this distinguished couple. The whole world of Gentile Christians were under a debt of thanks to them for having saved Paul's life, an event of which absolutely nothing is known; but the New Testament affords several splendid glimpses of this remarkable Christian couple.

And the church that is in their house ... Prisca and Aquila, to follow the order Paul himself sometimes used, were of sufficient wealth and generosity to provide a meeting place for Christians in their residence, a thing they did both in Rome and at Ephesus. Russell said that "It is probably that there were as yet no special buildings for Christians";[26] in fact, Barclay went much further, declaring that "It is, in fact, not until the third century that we hear about a church building at all!"[27]

The churches of Asia salute you ... This is a reference to the proconsular province of Asia, and not to the continent.

[26] John William Russell, op. cit., p. 435.

[27] William Barclay, op. cit. p. 187.