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Acts Chapter 20 020:001 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. 020:002 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece. 020:003 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.
020:004 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. 020:005 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas. 020:006 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.
020:007 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. 020:008 There were many lights in the upper chamber where we{TR reads "they" instead of "we"} were gathered together. 020:009 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. 020:010 Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him." 020:011 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. 020:012 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
020:013 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. 020:014 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene. 020:015 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.
020:016 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. 020:017 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
020:018 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, 020:019 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews; 020:020 how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, 020:021 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.{TR adds "Christ"} 020:022 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; 020:023 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
020:024 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. 020:025 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 020:026 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men, 020:027 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
020:028 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{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God which he purchased with his own blood. 020:029 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 020:030 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
020:031 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. 020:032 Now, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} 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. 020:033 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.
020:034 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. 020:035 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.'" 020:036 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
020:037 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, 020:038 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.