Sunday, February 28, 2016

LESSON 83

PAUL GOES TO MACEDONIA AND GREECE

Acts 20:1-12 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

20 When the trouble stopped, Paul invited the Lord’s followers to come visit him. After encouraging them, he told them goodbye and left for Macedonia. On his way through Macedonia he had many words of encouragement for the followers in various places. Then he went to Greece and stayed there three months. Paul was ready to sail for Syria, but some Jews were planning something against him. So he decided to go back through Macedonia to Syria.These men were traveling with him: Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, from the city of Berea; Aristarchus and Secundus, from the city of Thessalonica; Gaius, from the city of Derbe; Timothy; and two men from Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. These men went first, ahead of Paul. They waited for us in the city of Troas. We sailed from the city of Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread. We met these men in Troas five days later and stayed there seven days. On Sunday[a] we all met together to eat the Lord’s Supper.[b] Paul talked to the group. Because he was planning to leave the next day, he continued talking until midnight. We were all together in a room upstairs, and there were many lights in the room. There was a young man named Eutychus sitting in the window. Paul continued talking, and Eutychus became very, very sleepy. Finally, he went to sleep and fell out of the window. He fell to the ground from the third floor. When the people went down and lifted him up, he was dead. 10 Paul went down to where Eutychus was, knelt down beside him, and put his arms around him. He said to the other believers, “Don’t worry. He is alive now.” 11 Then Paul went upstairs again, broke off some pieces of bread and ate. He spoke to them a long time. It was early morning when he finished, and then he left. 12 The Lord’s followers took Eutychus home alive, and they were all greatly comforted.

1.   PAUL ENCOURAGES THE EPHESIANS THEN GOES TO MACEDONIA V. 1

2.   STOPS IN GREECE (3 MONTHS); PLANS FOR SYRIA CHANGED V. 2-3

3.   MEN TRAVELING WITH PAUL V. 4

4.   THEY GO AHEAD TO TROAS & WAIT FOR PAUL V. 5

5.   SUNDAY’S MEETING & EUTYCHUS’ FALL, DEATH & RESSURECTION V. 6-10

6.   PAUL PREACHES UNTIL MORNING AND LEAVES


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