Acts 20:5-28

⁵But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.

⁶And we went away from Philippi by ship after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days; and we were there for seven days.

⁷And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

⁸And there were a number of lights in the room where we had come together.

⁹And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.

¹⁰And Paul went down and, falling on him, took him in his arms and said, Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.

¹¹And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

¹²And they took the boy in, living, and were greatly comforted.

¹³But we, going before him by ship, went to Assos with the purpose of taking Paul in there: for so he had given orders, because he himself was coming by land.

¹⁴And when he came up with us at Assos, we took him in the ship and went on to Mitylene.

¹⁵And going from there by sea, we came on the day after opposite Chios, and touching at Samos on the day after that, we came on the third day to Miletus.

¹⁶For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

¹⁷And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the rulers of the church.

¹⁸And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

¹⁹Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:

²⁰And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,

²¹Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

²²And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:

²³Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

²⁴But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

²⁵And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.

²⁶And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men.

²⁷For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

²⁸Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.