Acts 20 Summary

After the uproar at Ephesus ceases, Paul calls the disciples unto him, embraces them, and departs to go into Macedonia. He gives them much exhortation as he goes over those parts, then comes into Greece and abodes three months. When Jews lay wait for him as he is about to sail into Syria, he purposes to return through Macedonia. Companions from various cities accompany him into Asia, and they go before to Troas to await him. Paul sails from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread and comes to Troas, where he abodes seven days. On the first day of the week, the disciples come together to break bread. Paul preaches unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continues his speech until midnight. A young man named Eutychus, sitting in a window, falls into deep sleep as Paul preaches long and sinks down from the third loft, taken up dead. Paul goes down, falls on him, embraces him, and says, Trouble not yourselves; his life is in him. When Paul comes up, breaks bread, eats, and talks a long while until break of day, he departs. The young man is brought alive, and they are much comforted. From Miletus, Paul sends for the elders of the church at Ephesus. He tells them how he has been with them, serving the Lord with humility, tears, and temptations from the Jews. He kept back nothing profitable, teaching publickly and from house to house, testifying repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul goes bound in spirit to Jerusalem, though the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city that bonds and afflictions abide him. He counts not his life dear, that he might finish his course with joy and the ministry received from the Lord Jesus. He tells them they shall see his face no more and commends them to God and to the word of His grace.