Acts 20

¹ Now after the tumult ceased, Paul, sending after the disciples and consoling and saluting them, came away to go into Macedonia. ² Now, passing through those parts and entreating them with many a word, he came into Greece. ³ Besides, spending three months, at there coming to be a plot against him by the Jews, being about to set out for Syria, he came to be of the opinion that he would return through Macedonia. ⁴ Now it was arranged for him to be met, as far away as the province of Asia, by Sopater Pyrrhus, a Berean. Yet of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius the Derbian, and Timothy, yet of the province of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. ⁵ Now these, coming before, remained for us in Troas. ⁶ Yet we sail off from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them in Troas in five days, where we tarry seven days. ⁷ Now on one of the sabbaths, at our having gathered to break bread, Paul argued with them, being about to be off on the morrow. Besides, he prolonged the word unto midnight. ⁸ Now there were a considerable number of torches in the upper chamber where we were gathered. ⁹ Now a certain young man named Eutychus, being seated on the window, sinking into a deep sleep while Paul is arguing still more, being sunk from sleep, falls down from the third story, and was picked up dead. ¹⁰ Now Paul, descending, falls on him, and, embracing him, said, "Make no tumult, for his soul is in him." ¹¹ Now, going up and breaking bread and tasting, besides conversing a considerable time until daybreak, thus he came away. ¹² Now they led the boy alive, and were not measurably consoled. ¹³ Now we, coming before to the ship, set out for Assos, thence being about to take up Paul, for thus it has been prescribed, he being about to go on foot. ¹⁴ Now as he came up with us in Assos, taking him up, we came to Mitylene. ¹⁵ And sailing from thence, the ensuing day we arrive abreast of Chios, yet on another we put in at Samos, yet the next we came to Miletus, ¹⁶ for Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus, so that he may not be coming to linger in the province of Asia, for he hurried, if it may be possible for him to be in Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost. ¹⁷ Now from Miletus, sending to Ephesus, he calls for the elders of the ecclesia. ¹⁸ Now as they came along to him, he said to them, "You are versed in the facts, from the first day on which I stepped into the province of Asia, how I came to be with you all the time, ¹⁹ slaving for the Lord with all humility and tears, and the trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews; ²⁰ how under no circumstances did I shrink from informing you of anything which was expedient, and teaching you in public and at your homes, ²¹ certifying to both Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. ²² And now, lo! I, bound in spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not being aware what I will meet with in it, ²³ more than that the holy spirit, city by city, certifies to me, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining for me. ²⁴ But of nothing have I a word, nor yet am I making my soul precious to myself, till I should be perfecting my career and the dispensation which I got from the Lord Jesus, to certify the evangel of the grace of God. ²⁵ And now, lo! I am aware that you all, among whom I passed through heralding the kingdom, shall be seeing my face no longer. ²⁶ Wherefore I am attesting to you in this very day that I am clear from the blood of all, ²⁷ for under no circumstances do I shrink from informing you of the entire counsel of God. ²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to the entire flocklet, among which the holy spirit appointed you supervisors, to be shepherding the ecclesia of God, which He procures through the blood of His Own. ²⁹ Now I am aware that, after I am out of reach, burdensome wolves will be entering among you, not sparing the flocklet. ³⁰ And from among yourselves will arise men, speaking perverse things to pull away disciples after themselves. ³¹ Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I cease not admonishing each one with tears. ³² And now I am committing you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to edify and give the enjoyment of an allotment among all who have been hallowed. ³³ I covet no one's silver or gold or vesture. ³⁴ You know that these hands subserve my needs, and of those who are with me. ³⁵ All I intimate to you, that, thus toiling, you must be supporting the infirm. Besides, remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'Happy is it to give rather than to get.'" ³⁶ And, saying these things, at his kneeling together with them all, he prays. ³⁷ Now there came to be considerable lamentation by all, and falling on Paul's neck, they kissed him fondly, ³⁸ being pained especially at the word which he had declared, that no longer are they about to behold his face. Yet they sent him forward into the ship.