Acts, Chapter 20
{20:1} After the uproar had ceased, Sha'ul sent for the
[1>]talmidim[<1], 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
Yehudim as he was about to set sail for Aram, he determined to return
through Macedonia. {20:4} These accompanied him as far as Asia:
Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Tesolonikim; Gaius
of Derbe; Timoteos; 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 [2>]talmidim[<2] were
gathered together to break bread, Sha'ul 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 we were
gathered together. {20:9} A certain young man named Eutychus sat in
the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Sha'ul spoke still
longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third
story, and was taken up dead. {20:10} Sha'ul 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 Sha'ul 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 Sha'ul 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 Yerushalayim on the day of Shavu`ot.
{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 Yehudim; {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 Yehudim and to Greeks
repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Yeshua. {20:22} Now,
behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Yerushalayim, 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 Yeshua, 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 the Lord and 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
[3>]talmidim[<3] 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, brothers, 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 ministered to my necessities, and to 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
Yeshua, 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 Sha'ul'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] {20:1} disciples
[2] {20:7} disciples
[3] {20:30} disciples
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