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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them and left for Macedonia. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2After traveling through that area and speaking many words of encouragement, he arrived in Greece, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3where 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7On 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in 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. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, and embraced him. “Do not be alarmed!” he said. “He is still alive!” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. And after speaking until daybreak, he departed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13We 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Sailing 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. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Paul 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But I consider my life of no value to me, 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. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Keep 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. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And 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. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35In 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.’ ” |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship. |
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