³⁵ In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”^[a]

³⁶ When Paul^[b] had said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them. ³⁷ All of them cried and cried^[c] as they put their arms around Paul and kissed^[d] him affectionately.