Acts 20:6-28

⁶But it was after the Days of Unleavened Bread that we sailed from Philippi, and in five days we joined them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

⁷Now on the first day of the week, the disciples being assembled to break bread, Paul started addressing them, and because he intended to leave the next day he continued his message until midnight.

⁸There were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled.

⁹Well a certain young man named Eutychus sat in a window and was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul kept on talking; when he was overcome by the sleep he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

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,

²³except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every city, saying that fetters and afflictions are just waiting for me.

²⁴However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News of the grace of God.

²⁵“Furthermore, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again.

²⁶Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all;

²⁷because I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁸So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood.