Acts Chapter 20
1 After the uproar was stopped⁺, Paul called the disciples to embrace them and then he left⁺ to go to Macedonia.
2 Then after he had gone through those regions⁺ and given them much exhortation, he went on to Greece.
3 He stayed⁺ there for three months. When the Jews were plotting⁺ against him as he was about to sail to Syria, he decided⁺ to return through Macedonia.
4 Accompanying him to Asia were Sopater from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia, and Timothy.
5 All these going before, waited for us at Troas.
6 After celebrating the days of unleavened bread, we sailed from Philippi and met⁺ them in Troas in five days and stayed⁺ with them there for seven days.
7 On the first day of the week~, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul proclaimed⁺ the Word to them, ready to depart on the next day, and he continued his speech until midnight.
8 There were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together.
9 In a window sill, a certain young man named Eutychus sat and began to fall into a deep sleep as Paul continued speaking⁺ for a long time. The young man slumped⁺ down in sleep, fell from the third loft, and was taken as dead.
10 Paul went downstairs and fell upon him to embrace him and said: Do not be troubled, for his life is still in him.
11 Therefore, after Paul came back upstairs again and broke bread and ate and talked a long while, even until the break of day, he then departed.
12 They took⁺ the young man with them, very much alive, and they were not a little comforted by this.
13 So we went to the ship and sailed to Assos. There we had intended to take Paul onto the ship. For he had appointed himself to go this far on foot.
14 Therefore, when he met us in Assos, we took him in and went on to Mitylene.
15 From Assos, we sailed on and the next day came near⁺ Chios. The next day we arrived at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. And the next day we came to Miletus.
16 Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus because he would not spend the time in Asia. For he hurried⁺, so that if it were possible, he wanted to be in Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost.
17 From Miletus, he sent word to Ephesus to call together the elders of the assemblies⁺.
18 When they came to him, he said to them: You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, how⁺ I have been with you at all times⁺.
19 I have served the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and trials⁺ that befell me from the plotting⁺ of the Jews.
20 I have kept back nothing that would be beneficial⁺ to you. But I have shown you and taught you both publicly and from house to house.
21 I have testified to both the Jews and also to the Greeks, proclaiming repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 And now behold, I am going bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what things will befall me there.
23 Except⁺ I know that the Holy Spirit testifies⁺ to me in every city saying that chains⁺ and afflictions~ will stay⁺ with me.
24 But none of these things deter⁺ me. Nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and complete the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus: To testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.
25 Now, behold I know that you all, among whom I have gone proclaiming⁺ the kingdom of God, will see my face no longer⁺.
26 Therefore I ask⁺ you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all people.
27 For I have not shunned the responsibility to declare the counsel of God to all of you.
28 Therefore, take heed to yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Feed the assembly⁺ of God that He purchased with His own blood.
29 For I know this, that after I leave⁺, grievous wolves will enter in among you and will not spare the flock.
30 Also from among yourselves, certain men will rise up and speak perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.
31 Therefore watch and remember that for three years I did not stop⁺ warning everyone night and day with tears.
32 Now family⁺, I commend you to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
33 I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
34 Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my own needs⁺ and to the needs of those who were with me.
35 I have shown you everything⁺ so that, laboring in this way⁺, you ought to support the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said: It is more blessed to give than to receive.
36 When he had thus spoken, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
37 They all wept greatly⁺ and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him.
38 Of all the words that Paul spoke, what caused them the most sorrow was that they would see his face no longer⁺. But then they accompanied him to the ship.