Book of Common Prayer

Paul goes into Macedonia and into Greece. At Troas he raises up a dead body. At Ephesus he calls the elders of the congregation together, commits the keeping of God’s flock to them, warns them of false teachers, makes his prayer with them, and departs by ship.

20 After the tumult was calmed, Paul called the disciples to him and took his leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. ² And when he had gone over those parts and given the people many exhortations, he went into Greece, ³ and was there three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him as he was about to sail into Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

⁴ There accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Berea, and from Thessalonica, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and from Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. ⁵ These went on ahead and waited for us at Troas. ⁶ And we sailed away from Philippi after the Passover holy days, and in five days came to them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

⁷ And on the morrow after the Sabbath day, the disciples came together to break bread. Paul, who was ready to depart on the next day, preached to them, and continued preaching until midnight. ⁸ And there were many lamps in the upper chamber where they were gathered together. ⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus sat in a window, falling into a deep sleep. And as Paul spoke on, he was the more overcome with sleep, and fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead. ¹⁰ Paul went down and fell on him, and embraced him and said, Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.

¹¹ When Paul had gone upstairs again, he broke bread and ate, and talked a long while, even till the morning, and so departed. ¹² And they brought in the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

¹³ And we went on to the ship and set sail for Assos, there to take Paul on board. For so he had arranged, and would himself go afoot. ¹⁴ When he came to us at Assos, we took him in and went to Mitylene. ¹⁵ And we sailed from there and arrived the next day off Chios. And the next day we arrived at the island of Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The next day we went on to Miletus, ¹⁶ for Paul had determined to pass by Ephesus as they sailed, because he did not want to spend the time in Asia. For he hastened to be (if he could possibly) at Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost.

³⁸ And he rose up and departed from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s mother-in-law was taken with a great fever, and they made intercession to him for her. ³⁹ And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and ministered to them.

⁴⁰ When the sun was down, all the people that had sick folk taken with different diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. ⁴¹ And devils also came out of many of them, crying out and saying, You are Christ, the Son of God!

But he rebuked the devils, and would not permit them to speak, for they knew that he was Christ.

⁴² As soon as it was day, he departed and went away into an isolated place. And the people sought him out and came to him, and kept him from leaving them. ⁴³ But he said to them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other places also, for that is why I have been sent.

⁴⁴ And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.