Acts 20

¹After the uproar ceased , Paul sent for the disciples , and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia .

²When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement , he came to Greece .

³There 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 .

⁴Sopater 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 .

⁵These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas ,

⁶but 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 .

⁷On 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 .

⁸There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered .

⁹And 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 .

¹⁰But Paul went down and bent over him , and taking him in his arms , said , Do not be alarmed , for his life is in him .

¹¹And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten , he conversed with them a long while , until daybreak , and so departed .

¹²And they took the youth away alive , and were not a little comforted .

¹³But 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 .

¹⁴And when he met us at Assos , we took him on board and went to Mitylene .

¹⁵And 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 .

¹⁶For 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 .

¹⁷Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.

¹⁸And 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 ,

¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews ;

²⁰how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable , and teaching you in public and from house to house ,

²¹testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ .

²²And now , behold , I am going to Jerusalem , constrained by the Spirit , not knowing what will happen to me there ,

²³except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me .

²⁴But 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 .

²⁵And now , behold , I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.

²⁶Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all ,

²⁷for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God .

²⁸Pay 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 .

²⁹I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you , not sparing the flock ;

³⁰and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things , to draw away the disciples after them .

³¹Therefore be alert , remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears .

³²And 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 .

³³I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel .

³⁴You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me .

³⁵In 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 .

³⁶And when he had said these things , he knelt down and prayed with them all .

³⁷And there was much weeping on the part of all ; they embraced Paul and kissed him ,

³⁸being 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 .