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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples, encouraged them, and after saying farewell, departed to go to Macedonia. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And when he had passed through those areas and offered them many words of encouragement, he came to Greece |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and stayed three months. The Jews plotted against him when he was about to set sail for Syria, and so he decided to go back through Macedonia. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He 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] | 6but we sailed away from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread. In five days we reached them at Troas, where we spent seven days. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7On the first day of the week, we assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he kept on talking until midnight. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were assembled, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on talking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But Paul went down, bent over him, embraced him, and said, "Don't be alarmed, because he's alive." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11After going upstairs, breaking the bread, and eating, Paul talked a long time until dawn. Then he left. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They brought the boy home alive and were greatly comforted. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul on board, because these were his instructions, since he himself was going by land. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went on to Mitylene. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Sailing from there, the next day we arrived off Chios. The following day we crossed over to Samos, and the day after, we came to Miletus. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Now from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When they came to him, he said to them: "You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and during the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You know that I did not avoid proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching you publicly and from house to house. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God's grace. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"And now I know that none of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see me again. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Therefore I declare to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27because I did not avoid declaring to you the whole plan of God. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd 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, not sparing the flock. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Men will rise up even from your own number and distort the truth to lure the disciples into following them. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I never stopped warning each one of you with tears. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"And now I commit 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 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 I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who are with me. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35In every way I've shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by laboring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' " |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36After he said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37There were many tears shed by everyone. They embraced Paul and kissed him, |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38grieving most of all over his statement that they would never see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship. |
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