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.

³⁰ Then they left that place and went through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know it.

³¹ He taught his disciples. He said to them, `The Son of Man will be given over to men. They will kill him. When he is killed, he will rise after three days.'

³² The disciples did not understand what he said and they were afraid to ask him.

³³ They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked the disciples, `What were you talking about on the way coming?'

³⁴ But they said nothing, because on the road they had been talking among themselves about who was the greatest person.

³⁵ He sat down and called the twelve disciples to him. He said, `The way to be first is to put yourself last and be a servant to the others.'

³⁶ Jesus took a child and had him stand in front of them. Then he took the child in his arms and said,

³⁷ `If anyone takes in a child like this for my sake, he takes in me. If anyone takes in me, he takes in the One who sent me.'

³⁸ John said to him, `Master, we saw a man driving bad spirits out of people. He was using your name, but he is not one of us. So we told him to stop because he is not one of us.'

³⁹ Jesus said, `Do not stop him. Anyone who can do a great work in my name will not be quick to say wrong things about me.

⁴⁰ He that is not against us is on our side.

⁴¹ `I tell you the truth. If anyone gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, he will not lose his reward'