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10 But Paul, having descended, fell upon him, and having embraced him, he said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him!”

11 And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and having eaten, and having talked for a considerable time until daybreak, so he went out.

12 Then they brought the boy alive and were not just a little comforted.

13 But we, having gone ahead to the ship, sailed to Assos, being about to take in Paul there. For having arranged thus, he was readying himself to go on foot.

14 And when he met with us at Assos, having taken him in, we came to Mitylene.

15 And having sailed away from there, the next day we arrived opposite Chios, and the second day we arrived at Samos, and the following day we came to Miletus.

16 For Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus, so that it might not come upon him to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it was possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

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

18 And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You? know from the first day on which I arrived in Asia, how I was with you? the whole time,

19 serving the Lord with all humility and tears, and in trials having befallen me in the plots of the Jews;

20 how I kept back nothing of that being profitable, to declare it to you? and to teach you? publicly and from house to house,

21 earnestly testifying both to the Jews and to the Greeks repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

22 And now behold, bound in the Spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me in it,

23 except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

24 But on no account do I make my life dear to myself, so as to finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus: to testify fully to the gospel of the grace of God.

25 And now, behold, I know that all of you? among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face no more.

26 Therefore I testify to you? in this day that I am innocent of the blood of all.

27 For I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you? the whole counsel of God.

28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among whom the Holy Spirit has set you? as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

29 I have known that after my departure, grievous wolves will come in among you?, not sparing the flock,

30 and out from your? own selves men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.

31 Therefore stay awake, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease admonishing each one with tears.

32 And now I commit you? to God and to the word of His grace, being able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those having been sanctified.

33 I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs and to those being with me.

35 In everything I showed you? that by thus laboring, it is necessary to aid those being weak, and also to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

36 And having said these things, having bowed his knee, he prayed with them all.

37 Then there was much weeping among all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

38 sorrowing especially over the word that he had spoken, that they are about to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.