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20:1  After · the uproar ceased, Paul sent for · the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left for Macedonia.
20:2  When he had gone through · · those parts and encouraged them with many words, he came to · Greece.
20:3  He spent three months there, and when a plot was hatched against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for · Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
20:4  · Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus from Berea, went with him, as did Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonians, · Gaius a resident of Derbe, · Timothy, and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
20:5  These men · had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.
20:6  We · sailed away after the days of Unleavened Bread from Philippi and joined the others in · Troas five days later, where we stayed for seven days.
20:7  On · the first day of the week, when we had gathered to break bread, · Paul addressed them, and since he intended to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight.
20:8  There were · a number of lamps in the upper room where we had gathered.
20:9  And a young man, named Eutychus, sitting on the window ledge, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul continued to speak · on and on. Overcome by · sleep, he fell from the third floor and was picked up for dead.
20:10  But Paul went down · and threw himself on him, and putting his arms around him, said, “Do not be alarmed, · for his life is in him.”
20:11  Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken · bread and eaten, he spoke with them a considerable time, until dawn, and so he departed.
20:12  And they took the boy home alive and were encouraged not a little.
20:13  We, then, went on to the ship and set sail for · Assos, where we planned to take · Paul on board; for he had made this arrangement, intending himself to travel by land.
20:14  When · he met us at · Assos, we took him on board and continued on to Mitylene.
20:15  And from there we sailed away on the following day and arrived off the shore of Chios, the · next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we went to Miletus.
20:16  For Paul had decided · to sail past · Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in · Asia, for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost.
20:17  From · · Miletus he sent to Ephesus, asking the elders of the church to come to him.
20:18  And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day on which I set foot in · Asia,
20:19  serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, · enduring the trials that fell on me by the plots of the Jews;
20:20  how I did not hold back · from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly · from house to house,
20:21  testifying both to Jews and to Greeks about · repentance toward God and about faith in · our Lord Jesus.
20:22  And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,
20:23  except that the Holy Spirit · testifies to me, saying that in every city imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
20:24  But I make my life of no account as of any value to me, that I may finish · my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of the grace of God.
20:25  “And now I know that none of you will see · my face again, you among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom.
20:26  Therefore I testify to you this · day that I am innocent of the blood of you all,
20:27  for I did not shrink from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.
20:28  Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock in which the Holy Spirit · has placed you overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with the blood of his own Son.
20:29  I know that there will come to you after · my departure savage wolves, not sparing the flock.
20:30  Even from among your own group will men arise, speaking distortions of the truth, to draw the disciples away after them.
20:31  Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night or day, I did not cease warning each one of you with tears.
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 an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
20:33  I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
20:34  You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for · my own needs as well as the needs of those with me. ·
20:35  In all this I have shown you that by working in this way you must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
20:36  And when he had said these things, he knelt down · with them all and prayed.
20:37  And there was much weeping on the part of all, and they fell on the neck of Paul and kissed him lovingly,
20:38  being saddened most of all because of the word he had spoken, that no longer were they going to see · his face. And they escorted him to the ship.