CHAPTER 20
When
the
uproar
had ended,
Paul
sent for
the
disciples.
After he had encouraged them,
he said goodbye to them
and left
for
Macedonia.
where
he stayed
three
months.
And when
the
Jews
formed
a plot
against him
as he was about
to sail
for
Syria,
he decided
to go back
through
Macedonia.
Paul
was accompanied by
Sopater
son of Pyrrhus
from Berea,
Aristarchus
and
Secundus
from Thessalonica,
Gaius
from Derbe,
Timothy,
and
Tychicus
and
Trophimus
from Asia.
And
after
the
Feast
of
Unleavened Bread,
we
sailed
from
Philippi,
and
five
days
later
we rejoined
them
in
Troas,
where
we stayed
seven
days.
On
the
first day
of the
week
we
came together
to break
bread.
Since Paul
was ready
to leave
the
next day,
he talked
to them
and
kept on
speaking
until
midnight.
And
a certain
young man
named
Eutychus,
seated
by
the
window,
was sinking into
a deep
sleep
as Paul
talked
on
and on.
When he was sound
asleep,
he fell
from
the
third story
and
was picked up
dead.
But
Paul
went down,
threw himself on
the young man,
and
embraced him.
“Do not
be alarmed!”
he said.
“He
is
still alive!”
We
went on ahead
to
the
ship
and sailed
to
Assos,
where
we were to
take
Paul aboard.
He had arranged
this
because he was going there
on foot.
Sailing on
from there,
we arrived
the
next day
opposite
Chios.
The
day after that
we arrived
at
Samos,
and
on the
following day
we came
to
Miletus.
Paul
had decided
to sail past
Ephesus
to
avoid
spending time
in
the province of Asia,
because
he was in a hurry
to reach
Jerusalem,
if
possible,
by the
day
of Pentecost.
When
they came
to
him,
he said,
“You
know
how
I lived
the
whole
time
I was with
you,
from
the first
day
I arrived
in
the province of Asia.
I served
the
Lord
with
great
humility
and
with tears,
and
in the trials
I faced
through
the
plots
of the
Jews.
I did not shrink back
from declaring
anything
that
was helpful
to you
as
I taught
you
publicly
and
from
house to house,
And
now,
compelled
by the
Spirit,
I
am going
to
Jerusalem,
not
knowing
what
will happen
to me
there.
I only know
that
in town after town
the
Holy
Spirit
warns
me
that
chains
and
afflictions
await
me.
But
I consider
my
life
of no
value
to myself,
if only
I may finish
my
course
and complete
the
ministry
I have received
from
the
Lord
Jesus—
the ministry of testifying
to the
good news
of
God's
grace.
Keep watch over
yourselves
and
the
entire
flock
of
which
the
Holy
Spirit
has made
you
overseers.
Be shepherds
of the
church
of God,
which
He purchased
with
His
own
blood.
I
know
that
after
my
departure,
savage
wolves
will come in
among
you
and will not spare
the
flock.
Even
from
your own
number,
men
will rise up
and distort
the truth
to draw away
disciples
after
them.
Therefore
be alert
and remember
that
for three years
I never stopped
warning
each
of you
night
and
day
with
tears.
And
now
I commit
you
to
God
and
to the
word
of
His
grace,
which
can
build you up
and
give
you
an inheritance
among
all
who
are sanctified.
You yourselves
know
that
these
hands of mine
have ministered to
my
own
needs
and those of
my companions.
In everything,
I showed
you
that
by this kind
of hard work
we must
help
the
weak,
remembering
the
words
of the
Lord
Jesus
Himself:
‘It is
more
blessed
to give
than
to receive.'"
They were especially grieved
by
his statement
that
they would never
see
his
face
again.
Then
they accompanied
him
to
the
ship.