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* WHEN the uproar had ceased , Paul sent for the disciples , and , after encouraging them , he bade them farewell and left to proceed to Macedonia . * Passing through those parts and encouraging them by many addresses , he came into Greece . * 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 . * 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 . * These went on and were waiting for us in Troas . * After the Days of Unleavened Bread we sailed from Philippi and came to them in Troas in five days . There we spent seven days . * 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 . * There were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled . * 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 . * 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 ." * Then he went up and broke bread and ate and talked on till daybreak and so departed . * They brought the boy living , and were not a little comforted . * 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 . * So when he joined us at Assos , we took him aboard and came to Mitylene . * From there we sailed next day and arrived off Chios . The next day we came to Samos , and on the following day to Miletus . * 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 . * From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church . * When they came to him , he said to them , "You know how I have lived among you the whole time since the first day I set foot in Asia , * serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews \'97 * how I did not shrink from telling you anything that was profitable or from teaching you publicly and from house to house , * urging upon both Jews and Greeks the need of a change of heart toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus . * "And now I am on my way , bound in spirit , to Jerusalem , not knowing what is to befall me there , * except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city that chains and trials are waiting for me . * But I do not hold my life as of any account if only I may finish my race and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus , to testify to the good news of the grace of God . * And now I know that you all , among whom I have gone about heralding the kingdom , will never see my face again . * Therefore I testify to you to-day that I am clear of the blood of all . * For I did not shrink from telling you the whole purpose of God . * "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers . Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood . * I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you , not sparing the flock . * And from among yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves . * Therefore watch , remembering that for three years I never ceased night nor day to exhort each one of you with tears . * "And now I commit you to the Lord and to his gracious message , which can build you up and give you the heritage among all those who have been made holy . * I have coveted no man 's silver or gold or apparel . * You yourselves know that these hands provided for my needs and the needs of my companions . * In all things I showed you that so laboring we ought to help the weak , and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus , that he said , * After saying this he kneeled with them all and prayed . * All wept aloud , and falling on Paul 's neck they kissed him affectionately , * grieving especially because he had said that they would never see his face again ; and they escorted him to the ship .

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