Aug. 3, 4
Acts 20
Act 20:1 After the
uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them,
and departed to go into Macedonia.
Act 20:2 When he had
gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he
came into Greece.
Act 20:3 When he had
spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as
he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through
Macedonia.
Act 20:4 These
accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and
Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus
and Trophimus of Asia.
Act 20:5 But these had
gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
Act 20:6 We sailed away
from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at
Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
Act 20:7 On the first
day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break
bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day,
and continued his speech until midnight.
Act 20:8 There were
many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered together.
Act 20:9 A certain
young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep
sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep,
he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.
Act 20:10 Paul went
down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be
troubled, for his life is in him."
Act 20:11 When he had
gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a
long while, even until break of day, he departed.
Act 20:12 They brought
the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
Act 20:13 But we who
went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul
aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by
land.
Act 20:14 When he met
us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
Act 20:15 Sailing from
there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we
touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came
to Miletus.
Act 20:16 For Paul had
determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time
in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in
Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
Act 20:17 From Miletus
he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
Act 20:18 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 all the time,
Act 20:19 serving the
Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which
happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
Act 20:20 how I didn't
shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching
you publicly and from house to house,
Act 20:21 testifying
both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward
our Lord Jesus.
Act 20:22 Now, behold,
I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen
to me there;
Act 20:23 except that
the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and
afflictions wait for me.
Act 20:24 But these
things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I
may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from
the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of
God.
Act 20:25 "Now,
behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the
Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
Act 20:26 Therefore I
testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,
Act 20:27 for I didn't
shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Act 20:28 Take heed,
therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy
Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord
and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Act 20:29 For I know
that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not
sparing the flock.
Act 20:30 Men will
arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw
away the disciples after them.
Act 20:31 Therefore
watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to
admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Act 20:32 Now,
brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which
is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those
who are sanctified.
Act 20:33 I coveted no
one's silver, or gold, or clothing.
Act 20:34 You
yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who
were with me.
Act 20:35 In all things
I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to 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.' "
Act 20:36 When he had
spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
Act 20:37 They all wept
a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
Act 20:38 sorrowing
most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should
see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.