20:1 After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging ¹  them and saying farewell, ²  he left to go to Macedonia. ³  20:2 After he had gone through those regions ⁴  and spoken many words of encouragement ⁵  to the believers there, ⁶  he came to Greece, ⁷  20:3 where he stayed ⁸  for three months. Because the Jews had made ⁹  a plot ¹⁰  against him as he was intending ¹¹  to sail ¹²  for Syria, he decided ¹³  to return through Macedonia. ¹⁴  20:4 Paul ¹⁵  was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, ¹⁶  Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, ¹⁷  Gaius ¹⁸  from Derbe, ¹⁹  and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia. ²⁰  20:5 These had gone on ahead ²¹  and were waiting for us in Troas. ²²  20:6 We ²³  sailed away from Philippi ²⁴  after the days of Unleavened Bread, ²⁵  and within five days ²⁶  we came to the others ²⁷  in Troas, ²⁸  where we stayed for seven days. 20:7 On the first day ²⁹  of the week, when we met ³⁰  to break bread, Paul began to speak ³¹  to the people, and because he intended ³²  to leave the next day, he extended ³³  his message until midnight. 20:8 (Now there were many lamps ³⁴  in the upstairs room where we were meeting.) ³⁵  20:9 A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, ³⁶  was sinking ³⁷  into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak ³⁸  for a long time. Fast asleep, ³⁹  he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. 20:10 But Paul went down, ⁴⁰  threw himself ⁴¹  on the young man, ⁴²  put his arms around him, ⁴³  and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!” ⁴⁴  20:11 Then Paul ⁴⁵  went back upstairs, ⁴⁶  and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them ⁴⁷  a long time, until dawn. Then he left. 20:12 They took the boy home alive and were greatly ⁴⁸  comforted.

20:13 We went on ahead ⁴⁹  to the ship and put out to sea ⁵⁰  for Assos, ⁵¹  intending ⁵²  to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. ⁵³  He ⁵⁴  himself was intending ⁵⁵  to go there by land. ⁵⁶  20:14 When he met us in Assos, ⁵⁷  we took him aboard ⁵⁸  and went to Mitylene. ⁵⁹  20:15 We set sail ⁶⁰  from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. ⁶¹  The next day we approached ⁶²  Samos, ⁶³  and the day after that we arrived at Miletus. ⁶⁴  20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus ⁶⁵  so as not to spend time ⁶⁶  in the province of Asia, ⁶⁷  for he was hurrying ⁶⁸  to arrive in Jerusalem, ⁶⁹  if possible, ⁷⁰  by the day of Pentecost. 20:17 From Miletus ⁷¹  he sent a message ⁷²  to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him. ⁷³ 

20:18 When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived ⁷⁴  the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot ⁷⁵  in the province of Asia, ⁷⁶  20:19 serving the Lord with all humility ⁷⁷  and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots ⁷⁸  of the Jews. 20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ⁷⁹  to you anything that would be helpful, ⁸⁰  and from teaching you publicly ⁸¹  and from house to house, 20:21 testifying ⁸²  to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ⁸³  20:22 And now, ⁸⁴  compelled ⁸⁵  by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem ⁸⁶  without knowing what will happen to me there, ⁸⁷  20:23 except ⁸⁸  that the Holy Spirit warns ⁸⁹  me in town after town ⁹⁰  that ⁹¹  imprisonment ⁹²  and persecutions ⁹³  are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life ⁹⁴  worth anything ⁹⁵  to myself, so that ⁹⁶  I may finish my task ⁹⁷  and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news ⁹⁸  of God’s grace.

20:25 “And now ⁹⁹  I know that none ¹⁰⁰  of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom ¹⁰¹  will see me ¹⁰²  again. 20:26 Therefore I declare ¹⁰³  to you today that I am innocent ¹⁰⁴  of the blood of you all. ¹⁰⁵  20:27 For I did not hold back from ¹⁰⁶  announcing ¹⁰⁷  to you the whole purpose ¹⁰⁸  of God. 20:28 Watch out for ¹⁰⁹  yourselves and for all the flock of which ¹¹⁰  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, ¹¹¹  to shepherd the church of God ¹¹²  that he obtained ¹¹³  with the blood of his own Son. ¹¹⁴  20:29 I know that after I am gone ¹¹⁵  fierce wolves ¹¹⁶  will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 20:30 Even from among your own group ¹¹⁷  men ¹¹⁸  will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ¹¹⁹  to draw the disciples away after them. 20:31 Therefore be alert, ¹²⁰  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ¹²¹  each one of you with tears. 20:32 And now I entrust ¹²²  you to God and to the message ¹²³  of his grace. This message ¹²⁴  is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 20:33 I have desired ¹²⁵  no one’s silver or gold or clothing. 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine ¹²⁶  provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. 20:35 By all these things, ¹²⁷  I have shown you that by working in this way we must help ¹²⁸  the weak, ¹²⁹  and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ¹³⁰ 

20:36 When ¹³¹  he had said these things, he knelt down ¹³²  with them all and prayed. 20:37 They all began to weep loudly, ¹³³  and hugged ¹³⁴  Paul and kissed him, ¹³⁵  20:38 especially saddened ¹³⁶  by what ¹³⁷  he had said, that they were not going to see him ¹³⁸  again. Then they accompanied ¹³⁹  him to the ship.