Acts 20 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Paul in Macedonia and Greece

Act 20:1After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.

Act 20:2

Act 20:2When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece.

Act 20:3

Act 20:3There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews[fn] as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

Act 20:4

Act 20:4Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.

Act 20:5

Act 20:5These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas,

Act 20:6

Act 20:6but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

Eutychus Raised from the Dead

Act 20:7

Act 20:7On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Act 20:8

Act 20:8There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.

Act 20:9

Act 20:9And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

Act 20:10

Act 20:10But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”

Act 20:11

Act 20:11And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.

Act 20:12

Act 20:12And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.

Act 20:13

Act 20:13But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

Act 20:14

Act 20:14And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.

Act 20:15

Act 20:15And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and[fn] the day after that we went to Miletus.

Act 20:16

Act 20:16For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

Act 20:17

Act 20:17Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.

Act 20:18

Act 20:18And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

Act 20:19

Act 20:19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

Act 20:20

Act 20:20how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Act 20:21

Act 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.[fn]

Act 20:22

Act 20:22And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by[fn] the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,

Act 20:23

Act 20:23except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

Act 20:24

Act 20:24But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only 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.

Act 20:25

Act 20:25And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.

Act 20:26

Act 20:26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all,

Act 20:27

Act 20:27for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Act 20:28

Act 20:28Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God,[fn] which he obtained with his own blood.[fn]

Act 20:29

Act 20:29I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

Act 20:30

Act 20:30and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Act 20:31

Act 20:31Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.

Act 20:32

Act 20:32And 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.

Act 20:33

Act 20:33I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.

Act 20:34

Act 20:34You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.

Act 20:35

Act 20:35In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Act 20:36

Act 20:36And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

Act 20:37

Act 20:37And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him,

Act 20:38

Act 20:38being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

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ESV Footnotes

(20:3)

Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 19

(20:15)

Some manuscripts add after remaining at Trogyllium

(20:21)

Some manuscripts omit Christ

(20:22)

Or bound in

(20:28)

Some manuscripts of the Lord

(20:28)

Or with the blood of his Own

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