20:1 After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging¹ them and saying farewell,² he left to go to Macedonia.³ 20:2 After he had gone through those regions⁴ and spoken many words of encouragement⁵ to the believers there,⁶ he came to Greece,⁷ 20:3 where he stayed⁸ for three months. Because the Jews had made⁹ a plot¹⁰ against him as he was intending¹¹ to sail¹² for Syria, he decided¹³ to return through Macedonia.¹⁴ 20:4 Paul¹⁵ was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea,¹⁶ Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica,¹⁷ Gaius¹⁸ from Derbe,¹⁹ and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia.²⁰ 20:5 These had gone on ahead²¹ and were waiting for us in Troas.²² 20:6 We²³ sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread,²⁴ and within five days²⁵ we came to the others²⁶ in Troas,²⁷ where we stayed for seven days. 20:7 On the first day²⁸ of the week, when we met²⁹ to break bread, Paul began to speak³⁰ to the people, and because he intended³¹ to leave the next day, he extended³² his message until midnight. 20:8 (Now there were many lamps³³ in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)³⁴ 20:9 A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window,³⁵ was sinking³⁶ into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak³⁷ for a long time. Fast asleep,³⁸ he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. 20:10 But Paul went down,³⁹ threw himself⁴⁰ on the young man,⁴¹ put his arms around him,⁴² and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”⁴³ 20:11 Then Paul⁴⁴ went back upstairs,⁴⁵ and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them⁴⁶ a long time, until dawn. Then he left. 20:12 They took the boy home alive and were greatly⁴⁷ comforted.

20:13 We went on ahead⁴⁸ to the ship and put out to sea⁴⁹ for Assos,⁵⁰ intending⁵¹ to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way.⁵² He⁵³ himself was intending⁵⁴ to go there by land.⁵⁵ 20:14 When he met us in Assos,⁵⁶ we took him aboard⁵⁷ and went to Mitylene.⁵⁸ 20:15 We set sail⁵⁹ from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios.⁶⁰ The next day we approached⁶¹ Samos,⁶² and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.⁶³ 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time⁶⁴ in Asia,⁶⁵ for he was hurrying⁶⁶ to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible,⁶⁷ by the day of Pentecost. 20:17 From Miletus⁶⁸ he sent a message⁶⁹ to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.⁷⁰

20:18 When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived⁷¹ the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot⁷² in Asia,⁷³ 20:19 serving the Lord with all humility⁷⁴ and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots⁷⁵ of the Jews. 20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming⁷⁶ to you anything that would be helpful,⁷⁷ and from teaching you publicly⁷⁸ and from house to house, 20:21 testifying⁷⁹ to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.⁸⁰ 20:22 And now,⁸¹ compelled⁸² by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem⁸³ without knowing what will happen to me there,⁸⁴ 20:23 except⁸⁵ that the Holy Spirit warns⁸⁶ me in town after town⁸⁷ that⁸⁸ imprisonment⁸⁹ and persecutions⁹⁰ are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life⁹¹ worth anything⁹² to myself, so that⁹³ I may finish my task⁹⁴ and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news⁹⁵ of God’s grace.

20:25 “And now⁹⁶ I know that none⁹⁷ of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom⁹⁸ will see me⁹⁹ again. 20:26 Therefore I declare¹⁰⁰ to you today that I am innocent¹⁰¹ of the blood of you all.¹⁰² 20:27 For I did not hold back from¹⁰³ announcing¹⁰⁴ to you the whole purpose¹⁰⁵ of God. 20:28 Watch out for¹⁰⁶ yourselves and for all the flock of which¹⁰⁷ the Holy Spirit has made you overseers,¹⁰⁸ to shepherd the church of God that he obtained¹⁰⁹ with the blood of his own Son.¹¹⁰ 20:29 I know that after I am gone¹¹¹ fierce wolves¹¹² will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 20:30 Even from among your own group¹¹³ men¹¹⁴ will arise, teaching perversions of the truth¹¹⁵ to draw the disciples away after them. 20:31 Therefore be alert,¹¹⁶ remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning¹¹⁷ each one of you with tears. 20:32 And now I entrust¹¹⁸ you to God and to the message¹¹⁹ of his grace. This message¹²⁰ is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 20:33 I have desired¹²¹ no one’s silver or gold or clothing. 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine¹²² provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. 20:35 By all these things,¹²³ I have shown you that by working in this way we must help¹²⁴ the weak,¹²⁵ and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”¹²⁶

20:36 When¹²⁷ he had said these things, he knelt down¹²⁸ with them all and prayed. 20:37 They all began to weep loudly,¹²⁹ and hugged¹³⁰ Paul and kissed him,¹³¹ 20:38 especially saddened¹³² by what¹³³ he had said, that they were not going to see him¹³⁴ again. Then they accompanied¹³⁵ him to the ship.