From the Morning Scripture Readings

After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and having exhorted them took leave of them and departed for Macedo”²nia. When he had gone through these parts and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedo”²nia. Sop”²ater of Beroe”²a, the son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalo”²nians, Aristar”²chus and Secun”²dus; and Ga”²ius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tych”²icus and Troph”²imus. These went on and were waiting for us at Tro”²as, but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Tro”²as, where we stayed for seven days.
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered. And a young man named Eu”²tychus was sitting in the window. He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer; and being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and embracing him said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the lad away alive, and were not a little comforted.

But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land. And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mityle”²ne. And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chi”²os; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we came to Mile”²tus. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

–Acts 20:1-16

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