Acts 20 (NET)

Acts 20:1¹After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:51 Tim 1:3Acts 19:211 Cor 16:51 Thess 5:26Gen 48:10Rom 16:161 Cor 16:201 Sam 20:41-42Acts 11:26

Acts 20:2²After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 4:11 Thess 2:3Col 1:281 Thess 2:11Acts 20:11Acts 14:22Acts 15:41Acts 16:12Acts 17:1Acts 17:10

Acts 20:3³where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 20:192 Cor 11:26Acts 25:3Acts 9:23-242 Cor 7:52 Cor 1:15Acts 16:9Acts 18:18Acts 19:21Acts 21:3

Acts 20:4⁴Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 19:292 Tim 4:20Eph 6:212 Tim 4:12Acts 16:1Acts 21:29Col 4:7Titus 3:12Acts 14:6Col 4:10

Acts 20:5⁵These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 16:82 Cor 2:122 Tim 4:13Acts 16:10-11Acts 20:13-15Acts 20:6-8

Acts 20:6⁶We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 12:3Exod 12:14-15Acts 16:12Exod 23:151 Cor 5:7-82 Tim 4:13Exod 12:18-20Exod 13:6-7Exod 34:181 Thess 2:2

Acts 20:7⁷On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:2Acts 2:42John 20:19John 20:1Acts 20:11Rev 1:10Acts 20:9Acts 28:23John 20:26Luke 24:35

Acts 20:8⁸(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 1:13Luke 22:12

Acts 20:9⁹A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 13:36Matt 26:40-41Jonah 1:5-6Mark 9:261 Kgs 17:19Acts 14:19

Acts 20:10¹⁰But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:40Mark 5:39John 11:11Matt 9:23-241 Kgs 17:21-222 Kgs 4:34-35Luke 7:13

Acts 20:11¹¹Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 20:7Acts 20:9

Acts 20:12¹²They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:161 Thess 5:142 Cor 1:41 Thess 3:21 Thess 4:181 Thess 5:11Eph 6:22Isa 40:1

Acts 20:13¹³We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 6:46Mark 1:35Mark 6:31-33

Acts 20:14¹⁴When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Acts 20:15¹⁵We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:20Acts 20:17

Acts 20:16¹⁶For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:8Acts 2:1Acts 19:21Acts 20:6Acts 18:19Acts 18:21Acts 20:13Acts 20:22Acts 21:4Acts 24:17

Acts 20:17¹⁷From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:17Acts 11:30Titus 1:5Acts 14:23Acts 20:28Jas 5:141 Pet 5:12 John 1:13 John 1:1Acts 15:23

Acts 20:18¹⁸When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 1:5-6Acts 18:19Acts 19:1Acts 19:102 Thess 3:7-91 Thess 2:1-102 Cor 1:122 Cor 6:3-112 Tim 3:10

Acts 20:19¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:242 Cor 2:42 Cor 4:7-11Acts 20:3Rom 12:112 Cor 12:7-102 Cor 3:52 Cor 7:5Acts 14:19-20Jer 13:17

Acts 20:20²⁰You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 20:272 Tim 4:2Acts 5:42Acts 20:31Col 1:28Deut 4:5Ps 40:9-101 Cor 15:31 Cor 12:71 Cor 14:6

Acts 20:21²¹testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:381 John 5:11-13Acts 11:182 Cor 7:102 Tim 2:25-26Acts 20:24Luke 13:3Luke 24:47Acts 26:18Rom 10:9

Acts 20:22²²And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:142 Cor 5:142 Pet 1:14Luke 18:31-33Acts 17:16Acts 19:21Acts 20:16Acts 21:11-14John 18:4Luke 12:50

Acts 20:23²³except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 9:161 Thess 3:3Acts 21:4Acts 14:22Acts 21:33Acts 21:112 Tim 2:12Acts 8:29John 16:33

Acts 20:24²⁴But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:6-82 Cor 12:102 Cor 4:11 Cor 15:58Acts 21:132 Cor 4:16-18Phil 3:13-152 Cor 4:8-9Heb 12:1-3Eph 2:4-10

Acts 20:25²⁵“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:31Acts 20:38Matt 4:23Acts 8:12Col 2:1Gal 1:22Luke 16:16Luke 9:60Matt 10:7Matt 13:19

Acts 20:26²⁶Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 18:6Ezek 3:18-21Ezek 33:2-9John 12:171 Thess 2:10-122 Cor 1:232 Cor 7:22 Cor 8:32 Sam 3:28Job 16:19

Acts 20:27²⁷For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 20:201 Thess 2:42 Cor 4:2Gal 1:7-10Gal 4:16Jer 23:221 Cor 11:23Acts 2:23Acts 20:35Eph 1:11

Acts 20:28²⁸Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:2-31 Tim 4:161 Pet 1:18-19Isa 40:111 Tim 3:2Acts 13:2Jer 3:151 Cor 10:32Heb 13:17Ps 78:70-72

Acts 20:29²⁹I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:152 Pet 2:1Acts 20:28John 10:12Luke 10:3Matt 10:16Ezek 34:2-3Jer 23:1Zech 11:17Jer 13:20

Acts 20:30³⁰Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 1:19-202 Tim 4:3-41 John 2:19Prov 23:33Acts 11:26Prov 19:11 Cor 1:12-151 Tim 5:131 Tim 6:52 John 1:7

Acts 20:31³¹Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 19:8Acts 19:10Acts 20:19Col 1:28Ezek 3:17-20Heb 13:172 Tim 4:5Luke 21:36Matt 13:251 Cor 4:14

Acts 20:32³²And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:12Eph 1:14Acts 26:18Col 3:24Eph 1:18Col 2:7Heb 9:15Jer 3:191 Pet 1:4-5Jude 1:24-25

Acts 20:33³³I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:91 Cor 9:121 Cor 9:182 Cor 7:21 Cor 9:151 Thess 2:52 Cor 12:14-171 Pet 5:2Num 16:151 Sam 12:3-5

Acts 20:34³⁴You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 18:31 Cor 4:122 Thess 3:8-91 Thess 2:9Acts 19:22

Acts 20:35³⁵By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:16Prov 19:172 Cor 9:6-12Luke 14:12-14Matt 10:82 Cor 8:91 Thess 5:14Isa 58:7-12Matt 25:34-40Rom 15:1

Acts 20:36³⁶When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:5Luke 22:41Acts 7:60Phil 4:62 Chr 6:13Dan 6:10Eph 3:14

Acts 20:37³⁷They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:41 Cor 16:201 Thess 5:262 Cor 13:12Luke 15:20Rev 21:4Rom 16:161 Sam 20:412 Kgs 20:32 Sam 15:30

Acts 20:38³⁸especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 15:31 Cor 16:11Acts 20:25Acts 21:16Acts 21:5