20:1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and when he had ①encouraged them and taken his leave of them, he left to go to Macedonia.
▷ ①Or exhorted
20:2 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much ①encouragement, he came to Greece.
▷ ①Or exhortation
20:3 And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
20:4 And ①he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of ②Asia.
▷ ①Lit there accompanied him ②I.e., west coast province of Asia Minor
20:5 Now these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas.
20:6 We sailed from Philippi after ①the days of Unleavened Bread, and reached them at Troas within five days; and we stayed there for seven days.
▷ ①I.e., Passover week
20:7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his ①message until midnight.
▷ ①Lit word, speech
20:8 There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were gathered together.
20:9 And there was a young man named ①Eutychus sitting ②on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor, and was picked up dead.
▷ ①Eutychus means good fortune; i.e., “Lucky” ②Or at the window
20:10 But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “ ①Do not be troubled, for ②he is still alive.”
▷ ①Or Stop being troubled ②Lit his soul is in him
20:11 When Paul had gone back up and had broken the bread and ①eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.
▷ ①Lit tasted
20:12 They took away the boy alive, and were ①greatly comforted.
▷ ①Lit not moderately
20:13 But we went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for that was what he had arranged, intending himself to go ①by land.
▷ ①Or on foot
20:14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
20:15 Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.
20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to lose time in ①Asia; for he was hurrying, if it might be possible for him to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
▷ ①I.e., west coast province of Asia Minor
20:17 From Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the church.
20:18 And when they came to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in ①Asia, how I was with you the whole time,
▷ ①See note v 16
20:19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials which came upon me ①through the plots of the Jews;
▷ ①Lit by
20:20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was beneficial, and teaching you publicly and ①from house to house,
▷ ①Or in the various private homes
20:21 solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
20:22 And now, behold, bound by the ①Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,
▷ ①Or in spirit
20:23 except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and afflictions await me.
20:24 But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of God’s grace.
20:25 “And now behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.
20:26 Therefore, I ①testify to you this day that I am ②innocent of the blood of all people.
▷ ①Or call you to witness ②Lit pure from
20:27 For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.
20:28 Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you ①overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He ②purchased ③with His own blood.
▷ ①Or bishops ②Lit acquired ③Lit through
20:29 I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
20:30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them.
20:31 Therefore, be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
20:32 And now I entrust 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.
20:33 I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes.
20:34 You yourselves know that these hands served my own needs and the men who were with me.
20:35 In everything I showed you that by working hard in this way you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’  ”
20:36 When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
20:37 And ①they all began to weep aloud and ②embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,
▷ ①Lit a considerable weeping of all occurred ②Lit threw themselves on Paul’s neck
20:38 ①grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship.
▷ ①Lit suffering pain