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. 2 On his way through Macedonia he had many words of encouragement
for the followers in various places. Then he went to Greece 3 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.4 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. 5 These men went first, ahead of Paul. They
waited for us in the city of Troas. 6 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. 7 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. 8 We were all together in a room upstairs, and there were many
lights in the room. 9 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.
