1. After the uproar ended, Paul sent for the disciples; and when he had encouraged them and said farewell, he departed to go to Macedonia.
2. When he had passed through these parts and given them a great word of encouragement, he came to Greece,
3. where he spent three months. When a plot was formed against him by the Jewish leaders as he was about to sail to Syria, he decided to return via Macedonia.
4. Sopater of Berea, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; as well as Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica; Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
5. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas.
6. But we sailed from Philippi after the Days of Matzah. In five days we came to them in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
7. Now on the first day of the week, we gathered to break bread. Paul was talking with them, intending to leave the next day, so he prolonged his speech till midnight.
8. There were many lamps in the upper chamber where we were meeting.
9. Now a young man named Eutychus was sitting in a windowsill, sinking into a deep sleep as Paul kept on talking. Overcome by sleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up—dead.
10. But Paul went down, fell on him and threw his arms around him. He said, “Don’t be upset, for his life is within him.”
11. After he went back up and broke the bread and ate, he talked with them a long while until daybreak and then left.
12. So they took the boy away alive, greatly relieved.
13. But we went on ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there—for so he had arranged, intending himself to travel there by land.
14. When he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.
15. Sailing from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios; the next day we crossed over to Samos, and the day after that we came to Miletus.
16. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he might not spend much time in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Shavuot.