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Acts

1 And af­ter the up­roar was ceased, Paul called unto him the dis­ci­ples, and em­braced them, and de­part­ed for to go into Mace­do­nia. 2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had giv­en them much ex­hor­ta­tion, he came into Greece, 3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syr­ia, he pur­posed to re­turn through Mace­do­nia. 4 And there ac­com­pa­nied him into Asia Sopa­ter of Berea; and of the Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans, Aristarchus and Se­cun­dus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Tim­o­theus; and of Asia, Ty­chi­cus and Trophimus. 5 These go­ing be­fore tar­ried for us at Troas. 6 And we sailed away from Philip­pi af­ter the days of un­leav­ened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode sev­en days. 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the dis­ci­ples came to­geth­er to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to de­part on the mor­row; and con­tin­ued his speech un­til mid­night. 8 And there were many lights in the up­per cham­ber, where they were gath­ered to­geth­er. 9 And there sat in a win­dow a cer­tain young man named Eu­ty­chus, be­ing fall­en into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preach­ing, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was tak­en up dead. 10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and em­brac­ing him said, Trou­ble not your­selves; for his life is in him. 11 When he there­fore was come up again, and had bro­ken bread, and eat­en, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he de­part­ed. 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a lit­tle com­fort­ed. 13 And we went be­fore to ship, and sailed unto As­sos, there in­tend­ing to take in Paul: for so had he ap­point­ed, mind­ing him­self to go afoot. 14 And when he met with us at As­sos, we took him in, and came to Mity­lene. 15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we ar­rived at Samos, and tar­ried at Tr­o­gyl­li­um; and the next day we came to Mile­tus. 16 For Paul had de­ter­mined to sail by Eph­esus, be­cause he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hast­ed, if it were pos­si­ble for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pen­te­cost. 17 And from Mile­tus he sent to Eph­esus, and called the el­ders of the church. 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, af­ter what man­ner I have been with you at all sea­sons, 19 Serv­ing the Lord with all hu­mil­i­ty of mind, and with many tears, and temp­ta­tions, which be­fell me by the ly­ing in wait of the Jews: 20 And how I kept back noth­ing that was prof­itable un­to you, but have shewed you, and have taught you pub­lick­ly, and from house to house, 21 Tes­ti­fy­ing both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, re­pen­tance to­ward God, and faith to­ward our Lord Je­sus Christ. 22 And now, be­hold, I go bound in the spir­it unto Jerusalem, not know­ing the things that shall be­fall me there: 23 Save that the Holy Ghost wit­nes­seth in ev­ery city, say­ing that bonds and af­flic­tions abide me. 24 But none of these things move me, nei­ther count I my life dear unto my­self, so that I might fin­ish my course with joy, and the min­istry, which I have re­ceived of the Lord Je­sus, to tes­ti­fy the gospel of the grace of God. 25 And now, be­hold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preach­ing the king­dom of God, shall see my face no more. 26 Where­fore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to de­clare unto you all the coun­sel of God. 28 Take heed there­fore unto your­selves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you over­seers, to feed the church of God, which he hath pur­chased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that af­ter my de­part­ing shall grievous wolves en­ter in among you, not spar­ing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speak­ing per­verse things, to draw away dis­ci­ples af­ter them. 31 There­fore watch, and re­mem­ber, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn ev­ery one night and day with tears. 32 And now, brethren, I com­mend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an in­her­i­tance among all them which are sanc­ti­fied. 33 I have cov­et­ed no man's sil­ver, or gold, or ap­par­el. 34 Yea, ye your­selves know, that these hands have min­is­tered unto my ne­ces­si­ties, and to them that were with me. 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labour­ing ye ought to sup­port the weak, and to re­mem­ber the words of the Lord Je­sus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to re­ceive. 36 And when he had thus spo­ken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. 37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, 38 Sor­row­ing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they ac­com­pa­nied him unto the ship.