Acts 20:6-19

⁶while we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the Passover, and joined them five days later at Troas, where we stayed for a week.

⁷On the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread, Paul, who was intending to leave the next day, began to address those who were present, and prolonged his address until midnight.

⁸There were a good many lamps in the upstairs room, where we had met;

⁹and a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, was gradually overcome with great drowsiness, as Paul continued his address. At last, quite overpowered by his drowsiness, he fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

¹⁰But Paul went down, threw himself on him, and put his arms around him. “Do not be alarmed,” he said, “he is still alive.”

¹¹Then he went upstairs; and, after breaking and partaking of the bread, he talked with them at great length until daybreak, and then left.

¹²Meanwhile they had taken the lad away alive, and were greatly comforted.

¹³We started first, went on board ship, and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. This was by his own arrangement, as he intended to go by land himself.

¹⁴So, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went on to Mitylene.

¹⁵The day after we had sailed from there, we arrived off Chios, touched at Samos the following day, and the next day reached Miletus;

¹⁶for Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so as to avoid spending much time in Roman Asia. He was making haste to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the Festival at the close of the Harvest.

¹⁷From Miletus, however, he sent to Ephesus and invited the church elders to meet him;

¹⁸and, when they came, he said to them, “You know well the life that I always led among you from the very first day that I set foot in Roman Asia,

¹⁹serving the Lord, as I did, in all humility, amid the tears and trials which fell to my lot through the plots of some of the Jewish leaders.