Acts-20
v1
After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.
v2
When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece.
v3
There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
v4
Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
v5
These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas,
v6
but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.Eutychus Raised from the Dead
v7
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
v8
There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
v9
And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
v10
But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
v11
And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.
v12
And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.
v13
But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.
v14
And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.
v15
And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.
v16
For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders
v17
Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.
v18
And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
v19
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;
v20
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
v21
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
v22
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,
v23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
v24
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
v25
And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.
v26
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all,
v27
for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
v28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
v29
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
v30
and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
v31
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.
v32
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
v33
I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.
v34
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.
v35
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.‘“
v36
And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
v37
And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him,
v38
being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.