Acts 20
Through Macedonia and Greece
20Now after the uproar had ceased, Paul having summoned and exhorted athe disciples, said farewell and left bto go to cMacedonia. 2And when he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece. 3And there he spent three months, and when aa plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for bSyria, he decided to return through cMacedonia. 4And he was accompanied by Sopater of aBerea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by bAristarchus and Secundus of the cThessalonians, and dGaius of eDerbe, and fTimothy, and gTychicus and Trophimus of 1Asia. 5But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for aus at bTroas. 6aAnd we sailed from bPhilippi after cthe days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at dTroas within five days; and there we stayed seven days.
Eutychus Raised from the Dead in Troas
7And on athe first day of the week, when bwe were gathered together to cbreak bread, Paul began speaking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his 1message until midnight. 8Now there were many alamps in the bupper room where we were gathered together. 9And there was a young man named 1Eutychus sitting on the windowsill, sinking into a deep sleep. And as Paul kept on talking, he sunk into that sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. 10But Paul went down and afell upon him, and after embracing him, he bsaid, “1Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.” 11And when he had gone back up and had abroken the bread and 1eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. 12And they took away the boy alive, and were not a little comforted.
Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders
13But awe, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go 1by land. 14And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene. 15And sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day following we came to aMiletus. 16For Paul had decided to sail past aEphesus so that he would not have to spend time in 1,bAsia; for he was hurrying cto be in Jerusalem, if possible, don the day of Pentecost.
17Now from Miletus he sent to aEphesus and called to him bthe elders of the church. 18And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, afrom the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, 19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me 1through athe plots of the Jews; 20how I adid not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and 1from house to house, 21solemnly atestifying to both Jews and Greeks about brepentance toward God and cfaith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 22“And now, behold, bound by the 1Spirit, aI am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23except that athe Holy Spirit solemnly btestifies to me in every city, saying that cchains and afflictions await me. 24“But aI do not make my life of any account nor dear to myself, so that I may bfinish my course and cthe ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to dtestify solemnly of the gospel of ethe grace of God.
25“And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about apreaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face. 26“Therefore, I 1testify to you this day that aI am 2innocent of the blood of all. 27“For I adid not shrink from declaring to you the whole bpurpose of God. 28“Be on guard for yourselves and for all athe flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you 1overseers, to shepherd bthe church of God which cHe 2purchased 3with His own blood. 29“I know that after my departure asavage wolves will come in among you, not sparing bthe flock; 30and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away athe disciples after them. 31“Therefore be watchful, remembering that night and day for a period of athree years I did not cease to admonish each one bwith tears. 32“And now I acommend you to God and to bthe word of His grace, which is able to cbuild you up and to give you dthe inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. 33“aI have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes. 34“You yourselves know that athese hands ministered to my own needs and to those bwho were with me. 35“In everything I showed you that by laboring in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36And when he had said these things, he aknelt down and prayed with them all. 37And 1they began to weep aloud and afalling on Paul’s neck, they were kissing him, 38being in agony especially over athe word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were baccompanying him to the ship.