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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming 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, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship. |
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