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Acts 20:8-27 World Messianic Bible (WMB)

8. There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.

9. A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.

10. Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”

11. When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

12. They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

13. But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.

14. When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.

15. Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.

16. For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Shavu`ot.

17. From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

18. When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

19. serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

20. how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

21. testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Yeshua.

22. Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

23. except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

24. But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Yeshua, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

25. “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about proclaiming God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

26. Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,

27. for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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