riversident - Acts:20:1-16

riversident@Acts:20:1 @ WHEN the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and, after encouraging them, he bade them farewell and left to proceed to Macedonia.

riversident@Acts:20:2 @ Passing through those parts and encouraging them by many addresses, he came into Greece.

riversident@Acts:20:3 @ There he spent three months. When a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

riversident@Acts:20:4 @ There were in company with him Sopater of Beraea, the son of Pyrrhus, and of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy, and from Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.

riversident@Acts:20:5 @ These went on and were waiting for us in Troas.

riversident@Acts:20:6 @ After the Days of Unleavened Bread we sailed from Philippi and came to them in Troas in five days. There we spent seven days.

riversident@Acts:20:7 @ On the first day of the week, when we all were assembled to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, being about to leave in the morning, and he extended his address until midnight.

riversident@Acts:20:8 @ There were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled.

riversident@Acts:20:9 @ A certain young man named Eutychus, sitting in a window, was overcome with deep sleep while Paul went on discoursing. At last overpowered by sleep he fell from the third story and was taken up dead.

riversident@Acts:20:10 @ But Paul went down and threw himself on him and embraced him and said, "Do not make a noisy wailing; for his life is still in him."

riversident@Acts:20:11 @ Then he went up and broke bread and ate and talked on till daybreak and so departed.

riversident@Acts:20:12 @ They brought the boy living, and were not a little comforted.

riversident@Acts:20:13 @ We went in advance to the ship and sailed for Assos, intending to take on Paul there, for so he had arranged, intending to come himself by land.

riversident@Acts:20:14 @ So when he joined us at Assos, we took him aboard and came to Mitylene.

riversident@Acts:20:15 @ From there we sailed next day and arrived off Chios. The next day we came to Samos, and on the following day to Miletus.

riversident@Acts:20:16 @ For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus in order not to spend time in Asia. He was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.