Shared Word Translation
Acts 20
Paul’s Travels in Macedonia and Greece
After the uproar had ceased, Paul, having sent for the disciples and encouraged them, took leave and went to go into Macedonia. And passing through those regions and encouraging them with many words, he came to Greece, and having spent three months there, a plot having been made against him by the Jews as he was about to sail to Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
And Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, was accompanying him, and of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus. These went ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread and came to them in Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
Eutychus Raised from the Dead
And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul was speaking to them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged the message until midnight. And there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting in the window, being overcome by deep sleep as Paul was speaking at length, having been overcome by sleep, fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. But Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him, said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”
And going up and breaking the bread and eating, and speaking for a long while, until dawn, thus he departed. And they brought the boy alive and were greatly comforted.
Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders
But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending there to take Paul on board, for thus he had arranged, intending himself to go by land. And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
And sailing from there, we came on the following day opposite Chios, and on the next we touched at Samos, and on the next we came to Miletus. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church. And when they came to him, he said to them:
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews; how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable and teaching you publicly and from house to house,
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
But I consider my life of no account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
And now, behold, I know that all of you among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face no more. Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Therefore be watchful, remembering that for three years I did not cease night and day to admonish each one with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing. You yourselves know that these hands served my needs and those who were with me. In all things I showed you that working in this way we 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.’”
And having said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. And there was much weeping among all, and falling upon Paul’s neck, they were kissing him, being distressed especially because of the word he had spoken, that they would see his face no more. And they were accompanying him to the ship.