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DASV: Acts 20
1 After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples,
encouraged them and said farewell, leaving to go to Macedonia.
2 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much
encouragement, he came to Greece,
3 where he spent three months. The Jews made a plot against him
as he was about to set sail for Syria, so he decided to return
through Macedonia.
4 There he was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea,
by Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, by Gaius from
Derbe, and by Timothy along with Tychicus and Trophimus from
the province of Asia.
5 But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas.
6 We sailed from Philippi after the days of the feast of
Unleavened Bread, and in five days joined them at Troas,
where we stayed for seven days.
7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to
break bread, Paul was reasoning with them, intending to leave
the next day, and he continued talking until midnight.
8 There were many lights in the upstairs room where we had
gathered.
9 A young man named Eutychus who sat in the window sank into a
deep sleep and as Paul kept on talking even longer. Sound
asleep he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.
10 Paul went down and bent over him, and put his arms around
him, and said, "Don't get upset; for he is still alive."
11 When he had gone up and had broken the bread and eaten, he
continued talking with them for a long time, even until day
break, then he left.
12 They took the boy away alive, and were greatly comforted.
13 But we going before by ship set sail for Assos, there
intending to take Paul aboard, as he had arranged. Paul
himself intended to go by land.
14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and went to
Mitylene.
15 Sailing from there, on the next day we arrived off Chios.
The next day we reached Samos; and the day after that we
came to Miletus.
16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might
not have to spend time in the province of Asia; for he was
hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of
Pentecost.
17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to meet with
the elders of the church.
18 When they arrived, he said to them, "You yourselves
know, from the first day that I set foot in the province
of Asia, how I lived with you that whole time,
19 serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with
tears, and with trials that happened to me by the plots
of the Jews.
20 I did not shrink back from declaring to you anything
beneficial to you, and taught you publicly as well as
from house to house.
21 I testified both to Jews and Greeks about repentance
toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 And now, I am compelled by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem,
not knowing what will happen to me there,
23 except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every
city that chains and persecutions await me.
24 But I do not consider my life of any value to me, if only
I may accomplish my mission and the ministry which I received
from the Lord Jesus, to testify about the good news of
the grace of God.
25 Now, I realize that none of you, among whom I went
about preaching the kingdom, will see my face again.
26 Therefore I testify to you this day, that I am innocent
of the blood of all of you.
27 For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the
whole counsel of God.
28 Guard yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy
Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of
the Lord that he purchased with his own blood.
29 I know that after I'm gone vicious wolves will come among
you, not sparing the flock.
30 Even from some of your own group men will arise,
speaking perverted things, to draw away the disciples
after them.
31 Therefore watch out for yourselves, remembering that for
three years I never stopped warning every one of you day
and night with tears.
32 Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace,
that is able to build you up, and to give you an
inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
33 I coveted no one's silver, gold or clothes.
34 You yourselves know that with these hands of mine I
provided for my own personal needs and also for those
who were with me.
35 In all things I gave you an example, that by working
like this you ought to help the weak, and to remember the
words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, 'It is more
blessed to give than to receive.'"
36 When he had finished speaking, he knelt down with all
of them and prayed.
37 They all cried aloud, hugged Paul and kissed him.
38 They were saddened the most because of what he had said,
that they would never see him again. Then they escorted
him to the ship.
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