Acts 20:10-22

¹⁰So Paul went down, threw himself on him and embracing him said, “Do not be distressed, because his life is in him!”

¹¹Then he went back up and broke bread, ate, and kept on speaking until daybreak—that is how he left!

¹²(On their part, they led the boy away alive, and were greatly comforted.)

¹³As for us, we went to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there—so it had been arranged, he himself intending to go on foot.

¹⁴When he met us at Assos we took him aboard and went on to Mityline.

¹⁵Sailing from there, the next day we arrived opposite Chios, and the day after we crossed over to Samos and stopped in Trogylium; the following day we came to Miletus.

¹⁶(Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid being detained in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, if he possibly could.)

¹⁷From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the congregation.

¹⁸So when they had come to him he said to them: “You yourselves know, from the first day that I arrived in Asia, how I lived the whole time I was with you,

¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, the ones that happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

²⁰how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

²¹solemnly proclaiming to both Jews and Greeks the repentance toward God and the faith into our Lord Jesus.

²²Now then, I am going to Jerusalem bound in my spirit, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,