New Testament in a Year

20 When it was all over, Paul sent for the disciples, preached a farewell message to them, said good-bye and left for Greece, ² preaching to the believers along the way in all the cities he passed through. ³ He was in Greece three months and was preparing to sail for Syria when he discovered a plot by the Jews against his life, so he decided to go north to Macedonia first.

⁴ Several men were traveling with him, going as far as Turkey;^[a] they were Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus; Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica; Gaius, from Derbe; and Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus, who were returning to their homes in Turkey, ⁵ and had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas. ⁶ As soon as the Passover ceremonies ended, we boarded ship at Philippi in northern Greece and five days later arrived in Troas, Turkey, where we stayed a week.

⁷ On Sunday^[b] we gathered for a Communion service, with Paul preaching. And since he was leaving the next day, he talked until midnight! ⁸ The upstairs room where we met was lighted with many flickering lamps; ⁹ and as Paul spoke on and on, a young man named Eutychus, sitting on the windowsill, went fast asleep and fell three stories to his death below. ^10-12 Paul went down and took him into his arms. “Don’t worry,” he said, “he’s all right!” And he was! What a wave of awesome joy swept through the crowd! They all went back upstairs and ate the Lord’s Supper together; then Paul preached another long sermon—so it was dawn when he finally left them!

¹³ Paul was going by land to Assos, and we went on ahead by ship. ¹⁴ He joined us there and we sailed together to Mitylene; ¹⁵ the next day we passed Chios; the next, we touched at Samos; and a day later we arrived at Miletus.

¹⁶ Paul had decided against stopping at Ephesus this time, as he was hurrying to get to Jerusalem, if possible, for the celebration of Pentecost.