In Macedonia and Greece
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📚✭And after the uproar had ceased, Paul called the disciples to him, embraced them and left to go to Macedonia. 2 📚And when he had gone over those areas and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece, 3 📚and stayed there three months. And when the Jews made a plot against him as he was about to sail to Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. 4 📚And Sopater of Berea accompanied him to Asia, also the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, Gaius of Derbe✭, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. 5 📚These men, going ahead, waited for us✭ at Troas.In Troas
6 📚And we sailed away from Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread✭, and in five days joined them in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
7 📚✭And on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, being ready to leave the next day, preached to them and continued his talk until midnight. 8 📚And there were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together. 9 📚And in a window there sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was falling into a deep sleep. And as Paul continued to speak for a long time, he collapsed with sleep and fell down from the third story and was lifted up dead. 10 📚And Paul went down, prostrated himself on him, and put his arms around him and said, “Don’t trouble yourselves, for his life is in him”. 11 📚So when he had come up again and broken bread and eaten, and had talked a long time, even until daybreak, he departed.
12 📚And they led the young man away alive, and were not a little comforted. 13 📚And we went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, there intending to take Paul aboard. This is what he had arranged, planning to go on foot himself. 14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and came to Mitylene. 15 📚✭And we sailed from there and came the next day opposite Chios, and the next day we arrived at Samos, and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after that we came to Miletus. 16 📚For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, because he did not want to spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying on to be in Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost✭, if possible.
Paul’s farewell to the Ephesian elders
17 📚And from Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and called the elders✭ of the church. 18 📚✭And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You know the manner of my life the whole time I was with you from the first day I came to Asia, 19 📚✭how I served the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears✭ and trials which came to me because of the plotting of the Jews, 20 📚✭and how I kept back nothing that was helpful to you, but made it known to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 📚solemnly declaring both to the Jews and to the Greeks the need of repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 📚“And, see, now I go bound in the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 📚except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and sufferings await me. 24 📚✭But none of these things moves me, nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
25 📚✭“And now, look, I know that all of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 26 📚✭Therefore I call you as witnesses this day, that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 📚For I have not hesitated to declare to you the whole counsel of God. 28 📚✭Therefore take care about yourselves, and about all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church✭ of God, which he purchased with his own blood. 29 📚For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves✭ will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 📚✭Also from among yourselves men will arise and speak distorted things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 📚✭Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
32 📚✭“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up✭, and to give you an inheritance✭ among all those who are sanctified✭. 33 📚✭I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or clothing. 34 📚Yes, you yourselves know that these hands provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me. 35 📚✭I showed you in every way how that by labouring like this you ought to support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”