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Acts 20:1

& After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and when he had exhorted them and taken his leave of them, he left to go to Macedonia.

Acts 20:2

& When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece.

Acts 20:3

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

Acts 20:4

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

Acts 20:5

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

Acts 20:6

& We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days.

Acts 20:7

& On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul {began} talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

Acts 20:8

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

Acts 20:9

& And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

Acts 20:10

& But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, "Do not be troubled, for his life is in him."

Acts 20:11

& When he had gone {back} up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

Acts 20:12

& They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted.

Acts 20:13

& But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.

Acts 20:14

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

Acts 20:15

& Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day following we came to Miletus.

Acts 20:16

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

Acts 20:17

& From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.

Acts 20:18

& And 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 the whole time,

Acts 20:19

& serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

Acts 20:20

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

Acts 20:21

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

Acts 20:22

& ~"And now, behold, bound by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

Acts 20:23

& except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

Acts 20:24

& ~"But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 20:25

& "And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.

Acts 20:26

& ~"Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

Acts 20:27

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

Acts 20:28

& ~"Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Acts 20:29

& ~"I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

Acts 20:30

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

Acts 20:31

& ~"Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.

Acts 20:32

& ~"And 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.

Acts 20:33

& ~"I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

Acts 20:34

& ~"You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my {own} needs and to the men who were with me.

Acts 20:35

& ~"In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, `It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

Acts 20:36

& When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

Acts 20:37

& And they {began} to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,