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Acts 20

Paul in Macedonia and Greece

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After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for  athe disciples, and when he had exhorted them and taken his leave of them, he left  bto go to  cMacedonia.

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When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece.

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And there he spent three months, and when  aa plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for  bSyria, he decided to return through  cMacedonia.

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And  1he was accompanied by Sopater of  aBerea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by  bAristarchus and Secundus of the  cThessalonians, and  bGaius of  dDerbe, and  eTimothy, and  fTychicus and  gTrophimus of  2 hAsia.

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But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for  aus at  bTroas.

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 aWe sailed from  bPhilippi after  cthe days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at  dTroas within five days; and there we stayed seven days.

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On  athe first day of the week, when  bwe were gathered together to  cbreak bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his  1message until midnight.

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There were many  alamps in the  bupper room where we were gathered together.

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And there was a young man named  1Eutychus sitting  2on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

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But Paul went down and  afell upon him, and after embracing him, he  bsaid, " 1Do not be troubled, for his life is in him."

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When he had gone back up and had  abroken the bread and  1eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

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They took away the boy alive, and were  1greatly comforted.

Troas to Miletus

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But  awe, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go  1by land.

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And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

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Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day following we came to  aMiletus.

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For Paul had decided to sail past  aEphesus so that he would not have to spend time in  1 bAsia; for he was hurrying  cto be in Jerusalem, if possible,  don the day of Pentecost.

Farewell to Ephesus

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From Miletus he sent to  aEphesus and called to him  bthe elders of the church.

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And when they had come to him, he said to them,

"You yourselves know,  afrom the first day that I set foot in  1Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

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serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me  1through  athe plots of the Jews;

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how I  adid not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and  1from house to house,

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solemnly  atestifying to both Jews and Greeks of  brepentance toward God and  cfaith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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"And now, behold, bound by the  1Spirit,  aI am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

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except that  athe Holy Spirit solemnly  btestifies to me in every city, saying that  cbonds and afflictions await me.

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"But  aI do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may  bfinish my course and  cthe ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to  dtestify solemnly of the gospel of  ethe grace of God.

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"And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about  apreaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.

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"Therefore, I  1testify to you this day that  aI am  2innocent of the blood of all men.

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"For I  adid not shrink from declaring to you the whole  bpurpose of God.

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"Be on guard for yourselves and for all  athe flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you  1overseers, to shepherd  bthe church of God which  cHe  2purchased  3with His own blood.

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"I know that after my departure  asavage wolves will come in among you, not sparing  bthe flock;

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and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away  athe disciples after them.

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"Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of  athree years I did not cease to admonish each one  bwith tears.

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"And now I  acommend you to God and to  bthe word of His grace, which is able to  cbuild you up and to give you  dthe inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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aI have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

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"You yourselves know that  athese hands ministered to my own needs and to the  bmen who were with me.

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"In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner 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.' "

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When he had said these things, he  aknelt down and prayed with them all.

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And  1they began to weep aloud and  2 aembraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

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 1grieving especially over  athe word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were  baccompanying him to the ship.



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