Book of Common Prayer

20 When everything was quiet, Paul called the disciples. He talked to them so they would not be afraid. Then he said goodbye and left. He went to Macedonia.

² He went through that country and talked to the people. He helped them to believe more strongly. Then he went to Greece.

³ He stayed there for three months. When he was ready to go to Syria by boat, he heard that the Jewish leaders were planning to catch him. So he said, `I will go back through Macedonia.'

⁴ Some men went with him as far as Asia Minor. They were Sopater from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, and also Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia Minor.

⁵ These went on ahead and waited for us at Troas.

⁶ After the days of the Passover Feast, we left Philippi by boat. Five days later we met them in Troas. We stayed there for seven days.

^7-8 n the first day of the week the disciples met together to break bread. Paul was ready to leave the next day. He talked a long time to the people at the meeting until long into the night. They were gathered in an upstairs room with many lights.

⁹ A young man named Eutychus sat in the window. He became very sleepy. When Paul kept talking so long, Eutychus was very deep in sleep and fell down from the third floor. When the people picked him up he was dead.

¹⁰ Paul went down stairs. He lay on him and put his arms around him. `Do not fear,' he said. `He is alive.'

¹¹ Then Paul went upstairs again. He broke bread and ate some food. He talked for a long time, until daybreak. After that, he left.

¹² The people took the young man. They were very glad because he was alive.

¹³ We went by boat to the town of Assos. We were going to meet Paul there and take him on the boat. He told us to do that because he wanted to walk.

¹⁴ We met him at Assos, took him on the boat, and went to Mitylene.

¹⁵ Then we went by boat the next day and came to Chios. The next day we passed the town of Samos. We reached Miletus on the third day.

¹⁶ Paul decided not to stop at Ephesus. He did not want to spend time in Asia Minor. He kept going as fast as he could, because he hoped to be at the feast in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

³⁸ Jesus left the meeting house and went to Simon's house. The mother of Simon's wife was sick with a bad fever. They asked Jesus to help her.

³⁹ He went and stood beside her. He told the fever to leave her. It left. She got up right away and began to do things for them.

⁴⁰ When the sun went down, the people brought to Jesus all who were sick in any way. He put his hands on every one of them and healed them.

⁴¹ The bad spirits also came out of many people. They called out, `You are the Son of God!' But he stopped them. He would not let them talk because they knew that he was the Christ.

⁴² The next morning Jesus went away to a place by himself. The people went to look for him. When they found him, they did not want him to leave them.

⁴³ But he said to them, `I must tell the good news to the people in other towns also. It is the news of God's kingdom. I was sent to tell this.'

⁴⁴ So he told God's word in the meeting houses in the Galilee area.