Acts 20

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1 Upon termination Paul rebellion called his disciples and gave them instructions and leave of them, he came out and went into Macedonia.
2 After going through those parts and teaches [believers] much exhortation, he came into Elladu.
3 [There] abode three months. When, on the occasion of the disturbance made against him by the Jews, he wanted to go into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
4 He was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
6 And we, after the days of Unleavened Bread, sailed away from Philippi, and in five days came to them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
8 In the upper room where we were meeting, there were many lights.
9 During a long conversation Pavlova one young man named Eutychus sitting on the window, sank into a deep sleep and staggered, sleepy fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
10 Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
eleven Having ascended to the same, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, until daybreak, and then left.
12 Meanwhile, they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

13 We went ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, intending to take in Paul; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot.
14 And when he met with us at Assos, took him, we came to Mitylene.
15 And we sailed thence, on the following day we arrived over against Chios, and the other stuck to Samos, and having been in Trogillii the next [day] arrived in Miletus,
16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so as not to slow him in Asia; for he was hurrying, if it is possible, on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem.

17 is sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the church,
18 and when they came to him, he said to them, you know how I am with the first day, which came into Asia, was all the time with you,
19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and temptations, which befell me by the plots of the Jews;
20 I did not miss anything useful, as you will not be preached and what would not have taught you publicly and from house to house,
21 Testifying both Jews and Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 And now, behold, bound in spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what shall befall me there;
23 Only the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.
24 But I do not look at that and do not value my life, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
25 And now, behold, I know I will not see my face you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God.
26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am pure from the blood of all,
27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
29 For I know that after my departure enter in among you grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;
thirty and of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore watch, remembering that for three years I did not cease night and day with tears to admonish every one of you.
32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.
33 Neither silver nor gold, nor the clothes I no one is preferred:
34 You know what my needs and [the needs of] the former when I served my hands these.
35 In the I showed you that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus, how he said, `It is more blessed to give than to receive. '

36 Having said this, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
37 Then he wept at all, and falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed him,
38 sorrowing most of the words which he spake, that they should see his face. And they accompanied him to the ship.

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