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MODERN LITERAL VERSION

20:1 And after the uproar ceased, having called the disciples, Paul hugged them. Then he went away from them, ready to go into Macedonia.


20:2 And when he had gone through those parts and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

20:3 And he made his stay there three months. {AD 58, Paul's Letter to the Romans is written.}
When a pact against him by the Jews came* to be as he was about to set-sail *for Syria, it became his intention to return through Macedonia.

20:4 And Sopater from Berea and the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus and Gaius, from Derbe and Timothy and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, accompanied him to Asia.

20:5 But these having gone before, were remaining in Troas for us.

20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread and came to them in Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.


20:7 And on the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul reasoned many things with them, being about to go away on the next-day, and prolonged {F} his speech till midnight.

20:8 And there were a considerable number of torches in the upstairs room where we were gathered together.

20:9 And a certain young-man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, being carried away by deep sleep, and as Paul reasoning yet longer, being carried away by his sleep, he fell downward from the third story and was raised up being dead.

20:10 And Paul went down and fell upon him and having embraced him, said, Do not be in an uproar, for* his life is in him.

20:11 And when he had gone up and had broken the bread and had eaten and had conversed with them for a considerable time, even till dawn, so he went away.

20:12 And they brought the living child Eutychus upstairs and they were immeasurably comforted.


20:13 But having gone to the ship, we set-sail to Assos, being about to take in Paul from there; for* so he had commanded, he himself being about to go on foot.

20:14 And when he encountered us in Assos, we took him in and came to Mitylene.

20:15 And sailing from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios, and the next-day we put the ship in at Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, the day after we came to Miletus.

20:16 For* Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus; for* he was hurrying, *that it might not happen to him to loiter any in Asia; if it was possible for him to come* into Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
{Early 59 AD. Miletus.}


20:17 And from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the congregation*.

20:18 And when they came* to him, he said to them, You* yourselves know, from the first day on which I stepped into Asia, how I was with you* all the time,

20:19 serving* the Lord with all humility and with many tears and with tests which befall me by the pacts of the Jews;

20:20 how I did not shrink-back from anything that is advantageous to you*, proclaiming and teaching you* in public and in every house,

20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

20:22 And now, behold, I travel bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will meet with me there,

20:23 except* that the Holy Spirit is testifying to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining for me.

20:24 But I make* account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as I desire to finish my course with joy and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good-news of the grace of God.

20:25 And now, behold, I know that you* all, among whom I went around preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more,

20:26 because I testify to you* today, that I am clean from the blood of all men.

20:27 For* I did not shrink-back from proclaiming to you* the whole counsel of God.

20:28 Therefore take-heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you* overseers, to shepherd the congregation* of the Lord and God, which the Lord acquired through his own blood.

20:29 I know that after my goodbye, cruel wolves will enter into you*, not sparing the flock;

20:30 and from among yourselves men will stand up, speaking perverse things, to pull away the disciples after themselves.

20:31 Hence watch, remembering for three years I ceased not from admonishing everyone night and day with tears.

20:32 And now I intrust you* brethren to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you * up and to give you* the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

20:33 I coveted no one's silver or gold or garment.

20:34 You* yourselves know that these hands attended to my needs and to those who were with me.

20:35 I showed you* an example in all things, that so laboring you* ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more fortunate to give than to receive.


20:36 And when he had spoken these things, he placed his knees on the ground and prayed with them all.

20:37 And there became considerable weeping of all and having fallen upon Paul's neck, they kissed him,

20:38 sorrowing especially upon the word which he had spoken, because they are about to view his face no more. And they sent him onward to the ship.
{Footnotes: Acts 20:7- Or: his sermon.}
{Early 59 AD. Journey to Jerusalem.}