Acts:20

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drb @Acts:20:1 @And after the tumult was ceased , Paul calling to him the disciples , and exhorting them , took his leave , and set forward to go into Macedonia . drb @Acts:20:2 @And when he had gone over those parts , and had exhorted them with many words , he came into Greece ; drb @Acts:20:3 @Where , when he had spent three months , the Jews laid wait for him , as he was about to sail into Syria ; so he took a resolution to return through Macedonia . drb @Acts:20:4 @And there accompanied him Sopater the son of Pyrrhus , of Berea ; and of the Thessalonians , Aristarchus , and Secundus , and Gaius of Derbe , and Timothy ; and of Asia , Tychicus and Trophimus . drb @Acts:20:5 @These going before , stayed for us at Troas . drb @Acts:20:6 @But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the Azymes , and came to them to Troas in five days , where we abode seven days . drb @Acts:20:7 @And on the first day of the week , when we were assembled to break bread , Paul discoursed with them , being to depart on the morrow : and he continued his speech until midnight . drb @Acts:20:8 @And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where we were assembled . drb @Acts:20:9 @And a certain young man named Eutychus , sitting on the window , being oppressed with a deep sleep , (as Paul was long preaching ,) by occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down , and was taken up dead . drb @Acts:20:10 @To whom , when Paul had gone down , he laid himself upon him , and embracing him , said : Be not troubled , for his soul is in him . drb @Acts:20:11 @Then going up , and breaking bread and tasting , and having talked a long time to them , until daylight , so he departed . drb @Acts:20:12 @And they brought the youth alive , and were not a little comforted drb @Acts:20:13 @But we , going aboard the ship , sailed to Assos , being there to take in Paul ; for so he had appointed , himself purposing to travel by land . drb @Acts:20:14 @And when he had met with us at Assos , we took him in , and came to Mitylene . drb @Acts:20:15 @And sailing thence , the day following we came over against Chios ; and the next day we arrived at Samos ; and the day following we came to Miletus . drb @Acts:20:16 @For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus , lest he should be stayed any time in Asia . For he hasted , if it were possible for him , to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem . drb @Acts:20:17 @And sending from Miletus to Ephesus , he called the ancients of the church . drb @Acts:20:18 @And when they were come to him , and were together , he said to them : You know from the first day that I came into Asia , in what manner I have been with you , for all the time , drb @Acts:20:19 @Serving the Lord with all humility , and with tears , and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews ; drb @Acts:20:20 @How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you , but have preached it to you , and taught you publicly , and from house to house , drb @Acts:20:21 @Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God , and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ . drb @Acts:20:22 @And now , behold , being bound in the spirit , I go to Jerusalem : not knowing the things which shall befall me there : drb @Acts:20:23 @Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me , saying : That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem . drb @Acts:20:24 @But I fear none of these things , neither do I count my life more precious than myself , so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus , to testify the gospel of the grace of God . drb @Acts:20:25 @And now behold , I know that all you , among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God , shall see my face no more . drb @Acts:20:26 @Wherefore I take you to witness this day , that I am clear from the blood of all men ; drb @Acts:20:27 @For I have not spared to declare unto you all the counsel of God . drb @Acts:20:28 @Take heed to yourselves , and to the whole flock , wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops , to rule the church of God , which he hath purchased with his own blood . drb @Acts:20:29 @I know that , after my departure , ravening wolves will enter in among you , not sparing the flock . drb @Acts:20:30 @And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things , to draw away disciples after them . drb @Acts:20:31 @Therefore watch , keeping in memory , that for three years I ceased not , with tears to admonish every one of you night and day . drb @Acts:20:32 @And now I commend you to God , and to the word of his grace , who is able to build up , and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified . drb @Acts:20:33 @I have not coveted any man 's silver , gold , or apparel , as drb @Acts:20:34 @You yourselves know : for such things as were needful for me and them that are with me , these hands have furnished . drb @Acts:20:35 @I have shewed you all things , how that so labouring you ought to support the weak , and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus , how he said : It is a more blessed thing to give , rather than to receive . drb @Acts:20:36 @And when he had said these things , kneeling down , he prayed with them all . drb @Acts:20:37 @And there was much weeping among them all ; and falling on the neck of Paul , they kissed him , drb @Acts:20:38 @Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said , that they should see his face no more . And they brought him on his way to the ship .

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