Acts 20

And after the uproar ceased, Paul, having sent for the disciples and having encouraged them, said farewell and departed to go into Macedonia.

And when he had gone through those parts and had given them much encouragement, he came into Greece.

And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was formed against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of the province of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.

And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul was having a discussion with them, intending to depart on the next day, and extended his speech until midnight.

And there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were gathered together.

And a certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window sinking into a deep sleep. And while Paul lectured still longer, having been overcome by his sleep he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

And Paul went down and threw himself on him, and embracing him said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”

And when he had gone back up, and had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, even until daybreak, and so departed.

And they took the young man away alive, and were not a little comforted.

Then we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there, because that is what he had arranged, but he himself intended to go there by land.

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

And sailing from there, the following day we came opposite Chios, and the next day we touched at Samos, and the day after we came to Miletus.

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.

And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in the province of Asia, how I was with you all the time,

serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and with trials that happened to me by the plots of the Jews,

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

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and trust toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now, look, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the spirit, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

But I consider my life worth nothing to myself, if only I can finish my course, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the good news of the grace of God.

“And now, listen, I know that you all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more.

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from everyone’s blood.

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

Pay attention to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he purchased with the blood of his own Son.

I know that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock,

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

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years I did not cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

“And now I commit 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 have been made holy.

I have coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.

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

In all things I showed you that working hard in this way we must 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.’”

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

And there was much sobbing among them all, and they fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

sorrowing most of all for the word that he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.