These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Acts 20
Brit Hadashah 38 verses
- 1 When the uproar had ceased, sent for the disciples; and, after speaking words of encouragement to them, he took his leave, and started for Macedonia.
- 2 Passing through those districts he encouraged the disciples in frequent addresses, and then came into Greece, and spent three months there.
- 3 The Jews having planned to waylay him whenever he might be on the point of taking ship for Syria, he decided to travel back by way of Macedonia.
-
4
He was accompanied as far as the province of Asia by Sopater the Beroean, the son of Pyrrhus; by the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; by Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and by the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
Cross references (24)
Acts 19:29 Ephesians 6:21 Colossians 4:7 Acts 21:29 Titus 3:12 2 Timothy 4:12 2 Timothy 4:20 Acts 16:1 Acts 14:6 Colossians 4:10 2 Timothy 1:2 Acts 27:2 Romans 16:23 2 Corinthians 1:1 Romans 16:21 Acts 14:20 Philemon 1:24 2 Corinthians 1:19 3 John 1:1 Acts 17:10-12 Acts 17:1 2 Corinthians 8:23-24 Philippians 2:19 1 Timothy 1:1 -
5
These brethren had gone on and were waiting for us in the Troad.
Cross references (6)
- 6 But we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined them in the Troad, where we remained for a week.
- 7 On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, , who was going away the next morning, was preaching to them, and prolonged his discourse till midnight.
-
8
Now there were a good many lamps in the room upstairs where we all were,
Cross references (2)
-
9
and a youth of the of Eutychus was sitting at the window. This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while preached at unusual length, overcome at last by sleep, fell from the second floor and was taken up dead.
Cross references (6)
-
10
, however, went down, threw himself upon him, and folding him in his arms said, “Do not be alarmed; his life is still in him.”
Cross references (7)
- 11 Then he went upstairs again, broke bread, and took some food; and after a long conversation which was continued till daybreak, at last he parted from them.
- 12 They had taken the lad home alive, and were greatly comforted.
-
13
The rest of us had already gone on board a ship, and now we set sail for Assos, intending to take on board there; for so he had arranged, he himself intending to go by land.
Cross references (3)
- 14 Accordingly, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
-
15
Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios. On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day following reached Miletus.
Cross references (2)
- 16 For Paul’s plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being in , if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.
-
17
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the Elders of the Church to come to him.
Cross references (13)
- 18 Upon their arrival he said to them, “You Elders well , from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia, the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,
-
19
serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews—
Cross references (36)
Acts 20:3 2 Corinthians 2:4 Romans 12:11 Philippians 3:18 Acts 20:31 Colossians 3:24 Revelation 7:15 Acts 14:19-20 Acts 9:23-25 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 2 Corinthians 11:23-30 Luke 19:41 Jeremiah 9:1 Romans 1:9 Acts 13:50-51 Jeremiah 13:17 Galatians 4:13-14 John 12:26 Ephesians 6:7 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Psalm 119:136 1 Peter 1:6 2 Timothy 1:4 Acts 14:5-6 Acts 17:5 2 Peter 1:1 2 Corinthians 4:7-11 2 Corinthians 3:5 Acts 27:23 2 Corinthians 7:5 Romans 1:1 James 1:2 1 Corinthians 4:9-13 Galatians 1:10 Acts 17:13 - 20 and that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, or from teaching you in public and in your homes,
-
21
and urging upon both Jews and Greeks the necessity of turning to and of believing in our Lord.
Cross references (49)
Acts 2:38 Acts 20:24 1 John 5:11-13 Acts 11:18 Mark 1:15 Luke 24:47 Ephesians 1:15 Acts 26:20 Luke 13:3 Mark 6:12 Matthew 4:17 2 Corinthians 7:10 Acts 17:30 Acts 26:18 Romans 3:22-26 1 John 5:1 John 3:15-18 Acts 10:43 1 John 5:5 John 3:36 Romans 2:4 Acts 16:31 Galatians 2:16 Acts 19:17 Luke 15:7 Romans 10:9 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Acts 28:23 Galatians 3:22 Romans 4:24 2 Timothy 2:25-26 Acts 13:38-39 Colossians 2:5 1 Corinthians 1:22 Galatians 2:20 Luke 13:5 Matthew 3:2 Luke 15:10 Acts 3:19 John 20:31 Matthew 21:31-32 Acts 8:25 Acts 2:40 Romans 5:1 Acts 24:24 Romans 1:16 Philemon 1:5 Acts 18:4-5 Romans 1:14 - 22 “And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to , not knowing what will happen to me there,
-
23
except that the Holy , at town after town, testifies to me that imprisonment and suffering are awaiting me.
Cross references (9)
-
24
But even the of my life I count as nothing, if only I may my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of Elohim’s .
Cross references (50)
Acts 21:13 Galatians 1:1 Titus 1:3 Acts 1:17 2 Corinthians 4:1 Acts 20:21 Acts 20:32 2 Timothy 4:6-8 1 Peter 5:12 Acts 11:23 Acts 14:3 Acts 9:15 Acts 22:21 Acts 26:17-18 Romans 3:24-26 Revelation 12:11 Philippians 1:20-23 Titus 3:4-7 2 Corinthians 5:8 John 15:27 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Luke 2:10-11 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 Philippians 3:13-15 Ephesians 2:4-10 Romans 8:35-39 Hebrews 12:1-3 John 17:4 Hebrews 2:3-4 Romans 4:4 1 Thessalonians 2:2 2 Timothy 4:17 Romans 5:20-21 Ephesians 3:13 Ephesians 1:6 Colossians 1:24 1 Corinthians 9:17-18 Titus 2:11 1 John 3:16 2 Timothy 1:12 Romans 11:6 1 Thessalonians 3:3 Philippians 2:17 2 Corinthians 7:4 Hebrews 10:34 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 2 Corinthians 12:10 1 Corinthians 15:58 2 Timothy 3:11 - 25 “And now, I that none of you among whom I have gone in and out proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom will any longer see my face.
- 26 Therefore I protest to you to-day that I am not responsible for the ruin of any one of you.
- 27 For I have not shrunk from declaring to you Elohim’s whole .
-
28
“Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of , which He has bought with His own .
Cross references (57)
1 Peter 5:2-3 Isaiah 40:11 1 Timothy 5:17 1 Timothy 3:2 1 Corinthians 10:32 Revelation 5:9 Acts 13:2 Acts 20:29 Micah 7:14 Ephesians 1:7 Luke 12:32 Philippians 1:1 John 21:15-17 1 Peter 1:18-19 1 Timothy 3:15-16 Hebrews 13:17 1 Peter 2:9 1 Peter 2:25 1 Corinthians 12:8-11 1 Corinthians 1:2 1 Timothy 4:16 Acts 14:23 Titus 1:7 1 Corinthians 15:9 1 Corinthians 11:22 Colossians 1:14 Ezekiel 34:31 2 Chronicles 19:6-7 Jeremiah 3:15 Luke 21:34 Song of Solomon 1:7-8 Galatians 1:13 Hebrews 12:15 Micah 5:4 Ephesians 1:14 Proverbs 10:21 Ezekiel 34:3 1 Corinthians 12:28-31 1 John 1:7 Matthew 16:18 Zechariah 11:4 Acts 20:17 Colossians 4:17 Jeremiah 13:17 Isaiah 63:11 Isaiah 53:10-12 Jeremiah 31:10 1 Corinthians 9:26-27 Matthew 2:6 1 Timothy 4:14 Hebrews 9:12-14 Psalm 78:70-72 1 Timothy 3:5 Jeremiah 13:20 Ephesians 4:11 Mark 13:9 Psalm 74:2 - 29 I that, when I am gone, cruel wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock;
-
30
and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.
Cross references (21)
1 John 2:19 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Jude 1:4-16 Acts 11:26 1 Timothy 1:19-20 Matthew 26:21-25 Galatians 6:12-13 Isaiah 59:3 1 Timothy 6:5 1 Corinthians 1:12-15 Acts 21:38 Acts 5:36-37 Proverbs 19:1 2 Peter 2:18 2 Peter 2:1-3 Revelation 2:6 2 Timothy 2:17-18 Matthew 23:15 2 John 1:7 1 Timothy 5:13 Proverbs 23:33 - 31 Therefore be on the alert; and that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.
-
32
“And now I commend you to and to the of His . He is able to build you up and to give you your inheritance among His people.
Cross references (32)
Colossians 1:12 Hebrews 9:15 Colossians 3:24 Acts 26:18 Colossians 2:7 Acts 14:23 Jeremiah 3:19 Ephesians 1:14 Ephesians 1:18 Acts 20:24 Acts 14:3 Jude 1:24-25 Jude 1:20 Acts 9:31 John 17:17 1 Peter 1:4-5 Ephesians 4:16 1 Corinthians 6:11 Genesis 50:24 Jeremiah 49:11 Hebrews 13:9 Jude 1:1 Ephesians 5:5 Acts 15:40 Ephesians 4:12 1 Corinthians 1:2 Ephesians 2:20-22 Hebrews 10:14 Acts 14:26 John 15:3 1 Corinthians 3:9-10 Hebrews 2:11 - 33 No one’s silver or gold or clothing have I coveted.
-
34
You yourselves that these hands of mine have provided for my own necessities and for the people with me.
Cross references (5)
-
35
In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord , how He Himself said, “’It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Cross references (25)
2 Corinthians 9:6-12 Proverbs 19:17 Luke 14:12-14 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Isaiah 58:7-12 2 Corinthians 8:9 Matthew 10:8 Isaiah 32:8 Psalm 112:5-9 Hebrews 13:3 Hebrews 12:12-13 Hebrews 13:16 Acts 20:20 Isaiah 35:3 Matthew 25:34-40 Ephesians 4:28 Psalm 41:1-3 Philippians 4:17-20 2 Corinthians 11:9 Romans 15:1 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Acts 20:27 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Corinthians 11:12 2 Corinthians 12:13 -
36
Having spoken thus, knelt down and prayed with them all;
Cross references (7)
- 37 and with loud lamentation they all threw their arms round his neck, and kissed him lovingly,
-
38
grieved above all things at his having told them that after that day they were no longer to see his face. And they went with him to the ship.
Cross references (5)