Acts

¹When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. He then took leave of them and left for Macedonia. ²As he traveled through those parts, he encouraged the disciples with many words and arrived into Greece. ³After Paul had spent three months there, the Jews began to plot against him as he was about to set sail for Syria. He then determined to return through Macedonia. ⁴The following disciples accompanied him as far as Asia:¹⁵⁰⁰ Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. ⁵Then men went on ahead and waited for us at Troas. ⁶But we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread and five days later, we met them at Troas where we stayed for seven days.

⁷On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread,¹⁵⁰¹ Paul talked with them. Since he intended to depart on the next day, he continued his speech until midnight. ⁸(There were many lights in the upper room where we had assembled). ⁹A certain young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, becoming drowsy. As Paul spoke still longer, the young man was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor. He was taken up dead. ¹⁰But Paul went down, fell on him, and took him in his arms, saying, “Do not be distressed! His soul¹⁵⁰² is [still] in him!”

¹¹Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, ate, and talked with them a long while, even until daybreak. Then he departed. ¹²The people brought the boy¹⁵⁰³ [home] alive, greatly comforted.

To Miletus—Paul’s address to the presbyters

¹³As for us who had gone ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there. This is what Paul had arranged since he intended to go there by land. ¹⁴When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and headed to Mitylene. ¹⁵The next day, we sailed from there and arrived opposite Chios. The following day, we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we arrived in Miletus. ¹⁶Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus in order not to spend time in Asia because he was in a hurry: if possible, he wanted to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

¹⁷From Miletus, Paul sent a message to Ephesus and called to himself the presbyters of the Church. ¹⁸When they arrived, he told them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time. ¹⁹I served the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews. ²⁰I did not hesitate to proclaim to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house. ²¹To both Jews and Greeks, I bore witness to repentance before God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.^{1504 22}Now behold, I go to Jerusalem bound by the Spirit. I do not know what will happen to me there, ²³except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. ²⁴Yet, I do not focus on these things and I do not hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy and [fulfill] the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully bear witness to the Good News of the grace of God.

²⁵Now behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again. ²⁶And so, I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men, ²⁷for I did not hesitate to proclaim to you the whole counsel¹⁵⁰⁵ of God. ²⁸Therefore, keep watch over yourselves and over the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers! Be shepherds of the Church of the Lord¹⁵⁰⁶ and of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.^{1507 29}For I know this, that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you and they will not spare the flock. ³⁰From among your own group, men will arise who will speak perverse things in order to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹Therefore, keep watch! Remember that for a period of three years, I did not cease night and day to warn everyone with tears. ³²Now, brethren, I entrust 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. ³³I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing. ³⁴You yourselves know that these, [my] hands, served my needs and those who were with me. ³⁵In all things, I have given you an example, that by this kind of hard work you should support the weak and remember the word of the Lord Jesus, as he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive!’”¹⁵⁰⁸

³⁶After saying these things, Paul knelt down and prayed with them all. ³⁷They were all in tears, embracing Paul and kissing him. ³⁸Most of all, they were sorrowful because of what he had said, that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

In Tyre, Ptolemais and Caesarea

1500. CT omits “as far as Asia”
1501. Greek kla,sai a;rton
1502. Or “life”
1503. Or “youth/young man”
1504. CT and MT omit “Christ”
1505. Or “plan/intention/purpose”
1506. CT omits “of the Lord and”
1507. CT reads “with the blood of his own [son]”
1508. An ‘agrapha’ not found in the Gospels but preserved by oral tradition, also translated “there is more happiness in giving than in receiving.”