Paul’s Trip to Macedonia and Greece

20 When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he said goodbye to them and left to go to Macedonia. ² He went through those regions and encouraged the people^[a] with everything he had to say. Then he went to Greece ³ and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was initiated against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia. ⁴ He was accompanied by Sopater (the son of Pyrrhus) from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia. ⁵ These men went on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas. ⁶ After the Festival^[b] of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.