The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 20
{20:1} After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples,
took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. {20:2} When he
had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words,
he came into Greece. {20:3} When he had spent three months there, and
a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for
Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia. {20:4} These
accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and
Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus
and Trophimus of Asia. {20:5} But these had gone ahead, and were
waiting for us at Troas. {20:6} We sailed away from Philippi after the
days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days,
where we stayed seven days.
{20:7} On the first day of the week, when the disciples were
gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to
depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
{20:8} There were many lights in the upper chamber where [1>]we[<1]
were gathered together. {20:9} A certain young man named Eutychus sat
in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still
longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third
story, and was taken up dead. {20:10} Paul went down, and fell upon
him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in
him."
{20:11} When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and
had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he
departed. {20:12} They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly
comforted.
{20:13} But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos,
intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending
himself to go by land. {20:14} When he met us at Assos, we took him
aboard, and came to Mitylene. {20:15} Sailing from there, we came the
following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and
stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus. {20:16}
For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have
to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for
him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
{20:17} From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the
elders of the assembly. {20:18} 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 all the time, {20:19} serving the Lord with
all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by
the plots of the Jews; {20:20} how I didn't shrink from declaring to
you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house
to house, {20:21} testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance
toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.[2] {20:22} Now, behold, I
go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to
me there; {20:23} except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city,
saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me. {20:24} But these
things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I
may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from
the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
{20:25} "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about
preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more. {20:26}
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of
all men, {20:27} for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole
counsel of God. {20:28} Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to
all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to
shepherd the assembly of [3>]the Lord and[<3] God which he purchased
with his own blood. {20:29} For I know that after my departure,
vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. {20:30}
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things,
to draw away the disciples after them. {20:31} Therefore watch,
remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to
admonish everyone night and day with tears. {20:32} Now,
[4>]brothers,[<4] I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace,
which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all
those who are sanctified. {20:33} I coveted no one's silver, or gold,
or clothing. {20:34} You yourselves know that these hands served my
necessities, and those who were with me. {20:35} In all things I gave
you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to
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 spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed
with them all. {20:37} They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck
and kissed him, {20:38} sorrowing most of all because of the word
which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they
accompanied him to the ship.
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Footnotes:
[1] {20:8} TR reads "they" instead of "we"
[2] {20:21} TR adds "Christ"
[3] {20:28} TR, NU omit "the Lord and"
[4] {20:32} The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows
may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
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