Acts 20:1-21 ▼

1 When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he said goodbye to them and left to go to Macedonia.

2 He went through those regions and encouraged the people with everything he had to say. Then he went to Greece

3 and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was initiated against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

4 He was accompanied by Sopater (the son of Pyrrhus) from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia.

5 These men went on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

6 After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

7 On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

8 Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.

9 A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

10 But Paul went down, bent over him, took him into his arms, and said, |Stop being alarmed, because he's still alive.|

11 Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

12 They took the young man away alive and were greatly relieved.

13 We proceeded to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we intended to pick up Paul. He had arranged it this way, since he had planned to travel there on foot.

14 When he met us in Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.

15 We sailed from there and on the following day arrived off Chios. The next day, we crossed over to Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The day after that, we came to Miletus.

16 Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in Asia, as he was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, if that was possible.

17 From Miletus he sent messengers to Ephesus to ask the elders of the church to meet with him.

18 When they came to him, he told them, |You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

19 I served the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

20 I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

21 I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus.