Act 20 | ISV | STEP | Paul's Trip to Macedonia and Greece 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.

Acts 20

1 Paul's Trip to Macedonia and Greece

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.1Cor 16:5; 1Tim 1:3 2 He went through those regions and encouraged the people ^{▼▼Lit. them} with many words. Then he went to Greece 3 and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was made against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia.Acts 9:23; 23:12; 25:3; 2Cor 11:26 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.Acts 16:1; 19:29; 21:29; 27:2; Eph 6:21; Col 4:7, 10; Col 4:7, 10, 2Tim 4:12, 20; Titus 3:12 5 These men went on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas. 6 After the days of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.Exod 12:14-15; 23:15; Acts 16:8; 2Cor 2:12; 2Tim 4:13

7 Paul's Farewell Visit to TroasOn the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. ^{▼▼Lit. them} Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.Acts 2:42, 46; 1Cor 10:16; 11:20; 16:2; Rev 1:10 8 Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.Acts 1:13 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 ^{▼▼Lit. fell on} him, took him into his arms, and said, “Stop being alarmed, for his life is in him.”1Kings 17:21; 2Kings 4:34; Matt 9:24 11 Then he went back upstairs, broke the bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left. 12 Then they took the boy away alive and were greatly relieved. 13 Paul's Trip to MiletusWe went ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were intending 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. ^{▼▼Other mss. lack 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.Acts 2:1; 18:21; 19:21; 24:17; 1Cor 16:8

17 Paul Meets with the Ephesian EldersFrom Miletus he sent messengers ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks messengers} to Ephesus to ask the elders of the church to meet with him. 18 When they came to him, he said to them, “You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.Acts 18:19 19 I served the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.Acts 20:3 20 I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.Acts 20:27 21 I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus. ^{▼▼Other mss. read Lord Jesus Christ}Mark 1:15; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; 18:5

22 “And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,Acts 19:21 23 except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.Acts 21:4, 11; 1Thes 3:3 24 But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.Acts 1:17; 21:13; Rom 8:35; 2Cor 4:1, 16; Gal 1:1; 2Tim 4:7; Titus 1:3

25 “Now I know that none of you among whom I traveled preaching the kingdom will ever see my face again.Acts 20:38; Rom 15:23 26 I therefore declare to you today that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,Acts 18:6; 2Cor 7:2 27 for I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God.Luke 7:30; John 15:15; Acts 20:20; Eph 1:11 28 Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's ^{▼▼Other mss. read the Lord's} church, which he acquired with his own blood.1Cor 12:28; Eph 1:7, 14; Col 1:14; 1Tim 4:16; Heb 9:12, 14; 1Pet 1:19; 5:2; Rev 5:9 29 I know that when I'm gone savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock.Matt 7:15; 2Pet 2:1 30 Indeed, some of your own men will come forward and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.1Tim 1:20; 1John 2:19 31 So be alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning each of you with tears.Acts 19:10

32 “I am now entrusting you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.Acts 9:31; 26:18; Eph 1:18; Col 1:12; 3:24; Heb 9:15; 13:9; 1Pet 1:4 33 I never desired anyone's silver, gold, or clothes.1Sam 12:3; 1Cor 9:12; 2Cor 7:2; 11:9; 12:17 34 You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me.Acts 18:3; 1Cor 4:12; 1Thes 2:9; 2Thes 3:8 35 In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ^{▼▼This saying is not recorded in the Gospels.}Rom 15:1; 1Cor 9:12; 2Cor 11:9, 12; 12:13; Eph 4:28; 1Thes 4:11; 5:14; 2Thes 3:8

36 When he had said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them.Acts 7:60; 21:5 37 All of them cried and cried ^{▼▼Lit. Great crying came to all} as they put their arms around Paul and kissed ^{▼▼People customarily greeted their friends with a kiss.} him with affection.Gen 45:14; 46:29 38 They were especially sorrowful because of what he had said—that they would never see his face again. Then they took him to the ship.Acts 20:25