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Paul Goes to Macedonia and Greece

When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the believersa and encouraged them. Then he said good-bye and left for Macedonia.

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Paul in Macedonia and Greece

But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the disciples to [him] and embraced [them], went away to go to Macedonia.

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While there, he encouraged the believers in all the towns he passed through. Then he traveled down to Greece,

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And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted them with much discourse, he came to Greece.

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where he stayed for three months. He was preparing to sail back to Syria when he discovered a plot by some Jews against his life, so he decided to return through Macedonia.

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And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

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Several men were traveling with him. They were Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea; Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica; Gaius from Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.

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And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater [son] of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

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They went on ahead and waited for us at Troas.

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These going before waited for us in Troas;

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After the Passoverb ended, we boarded a ship at Philippi in Macedonia and five days later joined them in Troas, where we stayed a week.

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but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days, where we spent seven days.

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Paul’s Final Visit to Troas

On the first day of the week, we gathered with the local believers to share in the Lord’s Supper.c Paul was preaching to them, and since he was leaving the next day, he kept talking until midnight.

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Eutychus Raised from the Dead

And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow. And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.

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The upstairs room where we met was lighted with many flickering lamps.

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And there were many lights in the upper room where we were assembled.

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As Paul spoke on and on, a young man named Eutychus, sitting on the windowsill, became very drowsy. Finally, he fell sound asleep and dropped three stories to his death below.

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And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.

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Paul went down, bent over him, and took him into his arms. “Don’t worry,” he said, “he’s alive!”

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But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding [him] [in his arms], said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.

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Then they all went back upstairs, shared in the Lord’s Supper,d and ate together. Paul continued talking to them until dawn, and then he left.

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And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.

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Meanwhile, the young man was taken home alive and well, and everyone was greatly relieved.

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And they brought [away] the boy alive, and were no little comforted.

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Paul Meets the Ephesian Elders

Paul went by land to Assos, where he had arranged for us to join him, while we traveled by ship.

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From Troas to Miletus

And we, having gone before on board ship, sailed off to Assos, going to take in Paul there; for so he had directed, he himself being about to go on foot.

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He joined us there, and we sailed together to Mitylene.

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And when he met with us at Assos, having taken him on board, we came to Mitylene;

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The next day we sailed past the island of Kios. The following day we crossed to the island of Samos, ande a day later we arrived at Miletus.

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and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus:

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Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, for he didn’t want to spend any more time in the province of Asia. He was hurrying to get to Jerusalem, if possible, in time for the Festival of Pentecost.

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for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

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But when we landed at Miletus, he sent a message to the elders of the church at Ephesus, asking them to come and meet him.

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Paul's Farewell to the Ephesian Elders

But from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he called over [to him] the elders of the assembly.

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When they arrived he declared, “You know that from the day I set foot in the province of Asia until now

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And when they were come to him, he said to them, *Ye* know how I was with you all the time from the first day that I arrived in Asia,

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I have done the Lord’s work humbly and with many tears. I have endured the trials that came to me from the plots of the Jews.

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serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

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I never shrank back from telling you what you needed to hear, either publicly or in your homes.

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how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce [it] to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,

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I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike — the necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God, and of having faith in our Lord Jesus.

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testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

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“And now I am bound by the Spiritf to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what awaits me,

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And now, behold, bound in my spirit *I* go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;

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except that the Holy Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and suffering lie ahead.

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only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.

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But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus — the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

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But I make no account of [my] life [as] dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

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“And now I know that none of you to whom I have preached the Kingdom will ever see me again.

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And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom [of God], shall see my face no more.

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I declare today that I have been faithful. If anyone suffers eternal death, it’s not my fault,g

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Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all,

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for I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know.

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for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.

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“So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock — his church, purchased with his own bloodh — over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as leaders.i

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Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

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I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock.

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[For] *I* know [this,] that there will come in amongst you after my departure grievous wolves, not sparing the flock;

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Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.

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and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

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Watch out! Remember the three years I was with you — my constant watch and care over you night and day, and my many tears for you.

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Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.

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“And now I entrust you to God and the message of his grace that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself.

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And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up and give [to you] an inheritance among all the sanctified.

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“I have never coveted anyone’s silver or gold or fine clothes.

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I have coveted [the] silver or gold or clothing of no one.

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You know that these hands of mine have worked to supply my own needs and even the needs of those who were with me.

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Yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my wants, and to those who were with me.

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And I have been a constant example of how you can help those in need by working hard. You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we] ought to come in aid of the weak, and to 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 finished speaking, he knelt and prayed with them.

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And having said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

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They all cried as they embraced and kissed him good-bye.

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And they all wept sore; and falling upon the neck of Paul they ardently kissed him,

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They were sad most of all because he had said that they would never see him again. Then they escorted him down to the ship.

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specially pained by the word which he had said, that they would no more see his face. And they went down with him to the ship.

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