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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GWT</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GWT</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">GOD'S WORD® Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples, encouraged them, said goodbye, and left for Macedonia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He went through that region and spoke many words of encouragement to the people. Then he went to Greece <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and stayed there for three months. When Paul was going to board a ship for Syria, he found out that the Jews were plotting to kill him. So he decided to go back through Macedonia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Sopater (son of Pyrrhus) from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia accompanied Paul. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>All these men went ahead and were waiting for us in Troas. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we boarded a ship at Philippi. Five days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>On Sunday we met to break bread. Paul was discussing [Scripture] with the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he kept talking until midnight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(Many lamps were lit in the upstairs room where we were meeting.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A young man named Eutychus was sitting in a window. As Paul was talking on and on, Eutychus was gradually falling asleep. Finally, overcome by sleep, he fell from the third story and was dead when they picked him up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Paul went to him, took him into his arms, and said, "Don't worry! He's alive!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Eutychus went upstairs again, broke the bread, and ate. Paul talked with the people for a long time, until sunrise, and then left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The people took the boy home. They were greatly relieved that he was alive.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We went ahead to the ship and sailed for the city of Assos. At Assos, we were going to pick up Paul. He had made these arrangements, since he had planned to walk overland to Assos. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When Paul met us in Assos, we took him on board and went to the city of Mitylene. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>We sailed from there. On the following day we approached the island of Chios. The next day we went by the island of Samos, and on the next day we arrived at the city of Miletus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/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. He was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, if that was possible.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>From Miletus Paul sent messengers to the city of Ephesus and called the spiritual leaders of the church to meet with him [in Miletus]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When they were with him, he said to them, "You know how I spent all my time with you from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I humbly served the Lord, often with tears in my eyes. I served the Lord during the difficult times I went through when the Jews plotted against me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I didn't avoid telling you anything that would help you, and I didn't avoid teaching you publicly and from house to house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I warned Jews and Greeks to change the way they think and act and to believe in our Lord Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"I am determined to go to Jerusalem now. I don't know what will happen to me there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>However, the Holy Spirit warns me in every city that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But I don't place any value on my own life. I want to finish the race I'm running. I want to carry out the mission I received from the Lord Jesus-the mission of testifying to the Good News of God's kindness. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Now I know that none of you whom I told about the kingdom [of God] will see me again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Therefore, I declare to you today that I am not responsible for the [spiritual] death of any of you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I didn't avoid telling you the whole plan of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to be shepherds for God's church which he acquired with his own blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I know that fierce wolves will come to you after I leave, and they won't spare the flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Some of your own men will come forward and say things that distort the truth. They will do this to lure disciples into following them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So be alert! Remember that I instructed each of you for three years, day and night, at times with tears in my eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>"I am now entrusting you to God and to his message that tells how kind he is. That message can help you grow and can give you the inheritance that is shared by all of God's holy people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>"I never wanted anyone's silver, gold, or clothes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You know that I worked to support myself and those who were with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I have given you an example that by working hard like this we should help the weak. We should remember the words that the Lord Jesus said, 'Giving gifts is more satisfying than receiving them.'"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>When Paul had finished speaking, he knelt down and prayed with all of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Everyone cried a lot as they put their arms around Paul and kissed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/20-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The thought of not seeing Paul again hurt them most of all. Then they took Paul to the ship.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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