Acts 20:1-20 ▼

1 And, after the tumult ceased, Paul, having sent for the disciples, and exhorted them , taking leave of them , departed to go into Macedonia.

2 And, having gone through those parts and exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece;

3 and, having spent three months there , a plot being laid for him by the Jews, as he was about to sail into Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

4 And there accompanied him Sopater, son of Pyrrhus, a Beraean; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Galas of Derbe, and, Timothy; and, of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

5 And these, having gone before, were waiting for us at Troas;

6 and we sailed away from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them to Troas in five days; where we tarried seven days.

7 And on the first day of the sabbaths, we having come together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them (being about to depart on the morrow), and continued the discourse until midnight.

8 And there were many lamps in the upper room, where we were assembled.

9 And a certain young man, Eutychus by name, seated in a window, being borne down with deep sleep, as Paul was long discoursing, overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story, and was taken up dead.

10 And Paul, going down, fell upon him; and, embracing him , said, "Make no tumult! for his soul is in him."

11 And, having gone up, and broken bread, and eaten, and for a long time having conversed with them , even till break of day, so he departed.

12 And they brought the boy alive, and were comforted in no ordinary measure.

13 And we, going before to the ship, set sail for Assos, there intending to take up Paul; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot.

14 And, when he met us at Assos, taking him up, we came to Mytilene.

15 And sailing thence, we came the following day over against Chios; and the next day we touched at Samos; and, on the following day , we came to Miletus.

16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

17 And, having sent from Miletus to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly.

18 And, when they came to him, he said to them, "Ye yourselves know from the first day on which I came into Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time;

19 serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and with trials which befell me in the plottings of the Jews;

20 how I shrank not from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and from teaching you publicly, and from house to house,