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1After the riot was over, Paul sent for the disciples. He encouraged them and said goodbye, and then he left for Macedonia.
2He traveled through that area, speaking many words of hope to the people. He arrived in Greece,
3where he stayed for three months. He was just about to sail for Syria, but he found out that some Jews were plotting against him. So he decided to go back through Macedonia instead.
4Several men went with him. They were Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia.
5They went on ahead and waited for us at Troas.
6We sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread and joined them there five days later. We all stayed in Troas for seven more days.
7On the first day of the week we met with the believers to share a meal. Paul spoke to the people, and because he was planning to leave the next day, he kept on talking until midnight.
8There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were meeting.
9A young man named Eutychus was sitting in a window. As Paul talked on and on, he started falling asleep. Once he was sound asleep, he fell from the third floor. When they picked him up from the ground, they found he was dead.
10But Paul went down and threw himself on the young man, putting his arms around him. “Don’t worry,” he said. “He’s alive!”
11Then Paul went upstairs again and broke bread and ate with the people. He kept on talking until it was daylight, and then he left.
12The people took the young man home. They were profoundly comforted because he was alive.
13Paul wanted to travel by himself for a while, so he arranged to walk to Assos alone. The rest of us went on ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos.
14He met us there and we took him on board. We continued to Mitylene,
15and the next day we sailed from there and arrived near Chios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and the following day we arrived at Miletus.
16Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus because didn’t want to spend too much time in the province of Asia. He was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem because he wanted to be there if possible by the day of Pentecost.
17From Miletus, Paul sent for the elders of the church at Ephesus.
18When they arrived, he said to them, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you. From the first day I came into the province of Asia,
19I served the Lord humbly. I wept and struggled when the Jews who opposed me set traps against me.
20Still, as you know, nothing kept me from preaching anything that would help you. I taught you in public and from house to house.
21I told both Jews and Greeks that they had to turn away from their sins to God and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
22“Now the Holy Spirit is compelling me to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what will happen to me there.
23I only know that the Spirit has been warning me in every city that I will face prison and suffering.
24But I’m not going to try to save my own life. My only goal is to finish the race and complete the work that the Lord Jesus has given me, to tell others the good news about God’s grace.
25“I spent a lot of time with you preaching about the kingdom, but now I know that none of you will ever see me again.
26So I tell you today that it’s not my fault if any of you don’t believe.
27I haven’t let anyone keep me from telling you everything God wants you to do.
28Keep watch over yourselves and all the believers that the Holy Spirit has made you leaders over. Be shepherds of God’s church, which he bought with his own blood.
29I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you. They won’t spare any of the sheep.
30Even some of your own people will rise up and twist the truth to get disciples to follow them.
31So be on your guard! Remember that for three years, I never stopped warning each of you as I wept over you night and day.
32“Now I commit you to God and to the message about his grace. It can build you up and give you a share in what God plans to give all his people.
33I wasn’t greedy for anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
34You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to meet my needs and those of the people traveling with me.
35In everything I did, I showed you that we must work hard and help the weak. We must remember the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
36When Paul had finished speaking, he got down on his knees with all of them and prayed.
37They all hugged and kissed him, and they wept as they did that. More than anything else, they were sad because
38Paul had said they’d never see him again. Then they went with him to the ship.