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Acts 20
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1 When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples. And after encouraging them, he said goodbye to them and left for Macedonia.CActs 19:21-20:06TOSKActs 20:1
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2 After traveling through that area and speaking many words of encouragement, he arrived in Greece,CActs 19:21-20:06TOSKActs 20:2
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3 where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.CActs 19:21-20:06TOSKActs 20:3
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4 Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.CActs 19:21-20:06TOSKActs 20:4
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5 These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas.CActs 19:21-20:06TOSKActs 20:5
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6 And after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in Troas, where we stayed seven days.CActs 19:21-20:06TOSKActs 20:6
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7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.CActs 20:07-12TOSKActs 20:7
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8 Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.CActs 20:07-12TOSKActs 20:8
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9 And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.CActs 20:07-12TOSKActs 20:9
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10 But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, and embraced him. “Do not be alarmed!” he said. “He is still alive!”IP1 Kings 17:17-24CActs 20:07-12TOSKActs 20:10TTElijah (Prophet of Fire and Restoration)
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11 Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. And after speaking until daybreak, he departed.CActs 20:07-12TOSKActs 20:11
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12 And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.CActs 20:07-12TOSKActs 20:12
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13 We went on ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, where we were to take Paul aboard. He had arranged this because he was going there on foot.TOSKActs 20:13
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14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
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15 Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios. The day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.TOSKActs 20:15
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16 Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.TOSKActs 20:16
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17 From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:17
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18 When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:18
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19 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:19
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20 I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:20
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21 testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:21
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22 And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:22
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23 I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:23
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24 But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:24
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25 Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:25
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26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.IPEzekiel 3:18-21CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:26
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27 For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:27
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28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.IPPsalms 74:1-2 Isaiah 43:21CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:28
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29 I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:29
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30 Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:30
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31 Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:31
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32 And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.IPGenesis 15:7CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:32TTAbraham (Father of Faith) Promised Land (Inheritance and Rest)
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33 I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.IP1 Samuel 12:1-5CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:33
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34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:34
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35 In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:35
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36 When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:36
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37 They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.IPGenesis 33:4CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:37
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38 They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.CActs 20:17-38TOSKActs 20:38