Acts 20 - The Perils of Paul

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Macedonia - a midnight meeting

Acts 20:1 NIV
When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said goodbye and set out for Macedonia.
Acts 20:2 NIV
He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece,
Acts 20:3 NIV
where he stayed three months. Because some Jews had plotted against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
Acts 20:4 NIV
He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy also, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
Acts 20:5 NIV
These men went on ahead and waited for us at Troas.
Acts 20:6 NIV
But we sailed from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas, where we stayed seven days.
Acts 20:7 NIV
On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
Acts 20:8 NIV
There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.
Acts 20:9 NIV
Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.
Acts 20:10 NIV
Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!”
Acts 20:11 NIV
Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.
Acts 20:12 NIV
The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

A personal testimony - “here am I”

Acts 20:13 NIV
We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot.
Acts 20:14 NIV
When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
Acts 20:15 NIV
The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Chios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Miletus.
Acts 20:16 NIV
Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.
Acts 20:17 NIV
From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
Acts 20:18 NIV
When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia.
Acts 20:19 NIV
I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents.
Acts 20:20 NIV
You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
Acts 20:21 NIV
I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 20:22 NIV
“And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
Acts 20:23 NIV
I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.
Acts 20:24 NIV
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Acts 20:25 NIV
“Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again.
Acts 20:26 NIV
Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you.
Acts 20:27 NIV
For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.

The weight of the world, words to minister by...

Acts 20:28 NIV
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
Acts 20:29 NIV
I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
Acts 20:30 NIV
Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
Acts 20:31 NIV
So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
Acts 20:32 NIV
“Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Acts 20:33 NIV
I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
Acts 20:34 NIV
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.
Acts 20:35 NIV
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Acts 20:36 NIV
When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.
Acts 20:37 NIV
They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.
Acts 20:38 NIV
What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
Acts 21:1 NIV
After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara.
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