20:1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and when he had exhorted them and taken his leave of them, he left to go to Macedonia. |
20:2 When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece. |
20:3 And {there} he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. |
20:4 And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, {the son} of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. |
20:5 But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas. |
20:6 We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days. |
20:7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul {began} talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight. |
20:8 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together. |
20:9 And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. |
20:10 But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, "Do not be troubled, for his life is in him." |
20:11 When he had gone {back} up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. |
20:12 They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted. |
20:13 But we, 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 by land. |
20:14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene. |
20:15 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 Miletus. |
20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. |
20:17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church. |
20:18 And when they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, |
20:19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews; |
20:20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house, |
20:21 solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. |
20:22 "And now, behold, bound by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, |
20:23 except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. |
20:24 "But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God. |
20:25 "And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face. |
20:26 "Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. |
20:27 "For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. |
20:28 "Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. |
20:29 "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; |
20:30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. |
20:31 "Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears. |
20:32 "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. |
20:33 "I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes. |
20:34 "You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my {own} needs and to the men who were with me. |
20:35 "In everything I showed you that by working hard 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.'" |
20:36 When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. |
20:37 And they {began} to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him, |
20:38 grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship. |