20:13 We went on ahead ²⁷  to the ship and put out to sea ²⁸  for Assos, ²⁹  intending ³⁰  to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. ³¹  He ³²  himself was intending ³³  to go there by land. ³⁴  20:14 When he met us in Assos, ³⁵  we took him aboard ³⁶  and went to Mitylene. ³⁷  20:15 We set sail ³⁸  from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. ³⁹  The next day we approached ⁴⁰  Samos, ⁴¹  and the day after that we arrived at Miletus. ⁴²  20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus ⁴³  so as not to spend time ⁴⁴  in the province of Asia, ⁴⁵  for he was hurrying ⁴⁶  to arrive in Jerusalem, ⁴⁷  if possible, ⁴⁸  by the day of Pentecost. 20:17 From Miletus ⁴⁹  he sent a message ⁵⁰  to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him. ⁵¹ 

20:18 When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived ⁵²  the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot ⁵³  in the province of Asia, ⁵⁴  20:19 serving the Lord with all humility ⁵⁵  and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots ⁵⁶  of the Jews. 20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ⁵⁷  to you anything that would be helpful, ⁵⁸  and from teaching you publicly ⁵⁹  and from house to house, 20:21 testifying ⁶⁰  to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ⁶¹  20:22 And now, ⁶²  compelled ⁶³  by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem ⁶⁴  without knowing what will happen to me there, ⁶⁵  20:23 except ⁶⁶  that the Holy Spirit warns ⁶⁷  me in town after town ⁶⁸  that ⁶⁹  imprisonment ⁷⁰  and persecutions ⁷¹  are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life ⁷²  worth anything ⁷³  to myself, so that ⁷⁴  I may finish my task ⁷⁵  and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news ⁷⁶  of God’s grace.

20:25 “And now ⁷⁷  I know that none ⁷⁸  of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom ⁷⁹  will see me ⁸⁰  again. 20:26 Therefore I declare ⁸¹  to you today that I am innocent ⁸²  of the blood of you all. ⁸³  20:27 For I did not hold back from ⁸⁴  announcing ⁸⁵  to you the whole purpose ⁸⁶  of God. 20:28 Watch out for ⁸⁷  yourselves and for all the flock of which ⁸⁸  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, ⁸⁹  to shepherd the church of God ⁹⁰  that he obtained ⁹¹  with the blood of his own Son. ⁹²  20:29 I know that after I am gone ⁹³  fierce wolves ⁹⁴  will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 20:30 Even from among your own group ⁹⁵  men ⁹⁶  will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ⁹⁷  to draw the disciples away after them. 20:31 Therefore be alert, ⁹⁸  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁹⁹  each one of you with tears. 20:32 And now I entrust ¹⁰⁰  you to God and to the message ¹⁰¹  of his grace. This message ¹⁰²  is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 20:33 I have desired ¹⁰³  no one’s silver or gold or clothing. 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine ¹⁰⁴  provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. 20:35 By all these things, ¹⁰⁵  I have shown you that by working in this way we must help ¹⁰⁶  the weak, ¹⁰⁷  and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ¹⁰⁸ 

20:36 When ¹⁰⁹  he had said these things, he knelt down ¹¹⁰  with them all and prayed. 20:37 They all began to weep loudly, ¹¹¹  and hugged ¹¹²  Paul and kissed him, ¹¹³  20:38 especially saddened ¹¹⁴  by what ¹¹⁵  he had said, that they were not going to see him ¹¹⁶  again. Then they accompanied ¹¹⁷  him to the ship.

21:1 After ¹¹⁸  we ¹¹⁹  tore ourselves away ¹²⁰  from them, we put out to sea, ¹²¹  and sailing a straight course, ¹²²  we came to Cos, ¹²³  on the next day to Rhodes, ¹²⁴  and from there to Patara. ¹²⁵  21:2 We found ¹²⁶  a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, ¹²⁷  went aboard, ¹²⁸  and put out to sea. ¹²⁹  21:3 After we sighted Cyprus ¹³⁰  and left it behind on our port side, ¹³¹  we sailed on to Syria and put in ¹³²  at Tyre, ¹³³  because the ship was to unload its cargo there. 21:4 After we located ¹³⁴  the disciples, we stayed there ¹³⁵  seven days. They repeatedly told ¹³⁶  Paul through the Spirit ¹³⁷  not to set foot ¹³⁸  in Jerusalem. ¹³⁹  21:5 When ¹⁴⁰  our time was over, ¹⁴¹  we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied ¹⁴²  us outside of the city. After ¹⁴³  kneeling down on the beach and praying, ¹⁴⁴  21:6 we said farewell ¹⁴⁵  to one another. ¹⁴⁶  Then ¹⁴⁷  we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes. ¹⁴⁸  21:7 We continued the voyage from Tyre ¹⁴⁹  and arrived at Ptolemais, ¹⁵⁰  and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day. 21:8 On the next day we left ¹⁵¹  and came to Caesarea, ¹⁵²  and entered ¹⁵³  the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, ¹⁵⁴  and stayed with him. 21:9 (He had four unmarried ¹⁵⁵  daughters who prophesied.) ¹⁵⁶ 

21:10 While we remained there for a number of days, ¹⁵⁷  a prophet named Agabus ¹⁵⁸  came down from Judea. 21:11 He came ¹⁵⁹  to us, took ¹⁶⁰  Paul’s belt, ¹⁶¹  tied ¹⁶²  his own hands and feet with it, ¹⁶³  and said, “The Holy Spirit says this: ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over ¹⁶⁴  to the Gentiles.’” 21:12 When we heard this, both we and the local people ¹⁶⁵  begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. 21:13 Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking ¹⁶⁶  my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, ¹⁶⁷  but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” 21:14 Because he could not be persuaded, ¹⁶⁸  we said no more except, ¹⁶⁹  “The Lord’s will be done.” ¹⁷⁰ 

21:15 After these days we got ready ¹⁷¹  and started up ¹⁷²  to Jerusalem. 21:16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea ¹⁷³  came along with us too, and brought us to the house ¹⁷⁴  of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, ¹⁷⁵  with whom we were to stay. 21:17 When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly. ¹⁷⁶  21:18 The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there. ¹⁷⁷