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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 20 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Acts 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/19.htm" title="Acts 19">◄</a> Acts 20 <a href="../acts/21.htm" title="Acts 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/acts/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Through Macedonia and Greece</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said goodbye and set out for Macedonia. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>These men went on ahead and waited for us at Troas. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Many manuscripts of the Lord">a</a></sup></span> which he bought with his own blood. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or with the blood of his own Son.">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>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: <span class="red">‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’</span> ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down with all of them and prayed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/20-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotebot">Many manuscripts <i>of the Lord</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>with the blood of his own Son.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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