1 По ᲂу҆тише́нїи же молвы̀, призва́въ па́ѵелъ ᲂу҆чн҃кѝ, ᲂу҆тѣ́шивъ и҆ цѣлова́въ и҆̀хъ, и҆зы́де и҆тѝ въ македо́нїю. 2 Проше́дъ же страны̑ ѡ҆́ны и҆ ᲂу҆тѣ́шивъ и҆̀хъ сло́вомъ мно́гимъ, прїи́де во є҆лла́дꙋ: 3 пожи́въ же мцⷭ҇ы трѝ, бы́вшꙋ на́нь навѣ́тꙋ ѿ і҆ꙋдє́й, хотѧ́щꙋ ѿвезти́сѧ въ сѷрі́ю, бы́сть хотѣ́нїе возврати́тисѧ сквозѣ̀ македо́нїю. 4 Послѣ́дова же є҆мꙋ̀ да́же до а҆сі́и сѡсїпа́тръ пѵ́рровъ бе́рѧнинъ, солꙋ́нѧне же а҆рїста́рхъ и҆ секꙋ́ндъ, и҆ га́їй де́рвѧнинъ и҆ тїмоѳе́й, а҆сі́ане же тѷхі́къ и҆ трофі́мъ. 5 Сі́и предше́дше жда́хꙋ на́съ въ трѡа́дѣ. 6 Мы́ же ѿвезо́хомсѧ по дне́хъ ѡ҆прѣсно́чныхъ ѿ фїлі̑ппъ и҆ прїидо́хомъ къ ни̑мъ въ трѡа́дꙋ во дне́хъ пѧтѝ, и҆дѣ́же пребы́хомъ дні́й се́дмь. 7 Во є҆ди́нꙋ же ѿ сꙋббѡ́тъ, собра́вшымсѧ ᲂу҆чн҃кѡ́мъ преломи́ти хлѣ́бъ, па́ѵелъ бесѣ́доваше къ ни̑мъ, хотѧ̀ и҆зы́ти на ᲂу҆́трїи, простре́ же сло́во до полꙋ́нощи. 8 Бѧ́хꙋ же свѣщы̀ мнѡ́ги въ го́рницѣ, и҆дѣ́же бѣ́хомъ со́брани. 9 Сѣдѧ́ же нѣ́кто ю҆́ноша, и҆́менемъ є҆ѵтѵ́хъ, во ѻ҆кнѣ̀, ѡ҆тѧгче́нъ сно́мъ глꙋбо́кимъ, глаго́лющꙋ па́ѵлꙋ ѡ҆ мно́зѣ, прекло́ньсѧ ѿ сна̀, падѐ ѿ трекро́вника до́лꙋ, и҆ взѧ́ша є҆го̀ ме́ртва. 10 Соше́дъ же па́ѵелъ нападѐ на́нь, и҆ ѡ҆б̾е́мь є҆го̀ речѐ: не мо́лвите, и҆́бо дꙋша̀ є҆гѡ̀ въ не́мъ є҆́сть. 11 Возше́дъ же и҆ прело́мль хлѣ́бъ и҆ вкꙋ́шь, дово́льнѡ же бесѣ́довавъ да́же до зарѝ, и҆ та́кѡ и҆зы́де. 12 Приведо́ша же ѻ҆́трока жи́ва и҆ ᲂу҆тѣ́шишасѧ не ма́лѡ. 13 Мы́ же, прише́дше въ кора́бль, ѿвезо́хомсѧ во а҆́ссонъ, ѿтꙋ́дꙋ хотѧ́ще поѧ́ти па́ѵла: та́кѡ бо на́мъ бѣ̀ повелѣ́лъ, хотѧ̀ са́мъ пѣ́шь и҆тѝ. 14 И҆ ꙗ҆́коже сни́десѧ съ на́ми во а҆́ссонѣ, взе́мше є҆го̀ прїидо́хомъ въ мїтѷли́нъ. 15 И҆ ѿтꙋ́дꙋ ѿве́зшесѧ, во ᲂу҆́трїе приста́хомъ проти́вꙋ хі́ю, въ дрꙋгі́й же ѿвезо́хомсѧ въ са́монъ, и҆ пребы́вше въ трѡгѷллі́и, въ грѧдꙋ́щїй же де́нь прїидо́хомъ въ мїли́тъ: 16 сꙋди́ бо па́ѵелъ ми́мо и҆тѝ є҆фе́съ, ꙗ҆́кѡ да не бꙋ́детъ є҆мꙋ̀ закоснѣ́ти во а҆сі́и, тща́шебосѧ, а҆́ще возмо́жно бꙋ́детъ, въ де́нь пѧтьдесѧ́тный бы́ти во і҆ерⷭ҇ли́мѣ. 17 Ѿ мїли́та же посла́въ во є҆фе́съ, призва̀ пресвѵ́теры цр҃кѡ́вныѧ, 18 и҆ ꙗ҆́коже прїидо́ша къ немꙋ̀, речѐ къ ни̑мъ: вы̀ вѣ́сте, ꙗ҆́кѡ ѿ пе́рвагѡ днѐ, ѿне́лиже прїидо́хъ во а҆сі́ю, ка́кѡ съ ва́ми всѐ вре́мѧ бы́хъ, 19 рабо́таѧ гдⷭ҇еви со всѧ́кимъ смиреномⷣрїемъ и҆ мно́гими слеза́ми и҆ напа́стьми, прилꙋчи́вшимисѧ мнѣ̀ ѿ і҆ꙋде́йскихъ навѣ̑тъ: 20 ꙗ҆́кѡ ни въ чесо́мъ ѿ поле́зныхъ ѡ҆бинꙋ́хсѧ, є҆́же сказа́ти ва́мъ и҆ наꙋчи́ти ва́съ пред̾ людьмѝ и҆ по домѡ́мъ, 21 засвидѣ́тельствꙋѧ і҆ꙋде́ємъ же и҆ є҆́ллинѡмъ є҆́же къ бг҃ꙋ покаѧ́нїе и҆ вѣ́рꙋ ꙗ҆́же въ гдⷭ҇а на́шего і҆и҃са хрⷭ҇та̀. 22 И҆ нн҃ѣ, сѐ, а҆́зъ свѧ́занъ дꙋ́хомъ грѧдꙋ̀ во і҆ерⷭ҇ли́мъ, ꙗ҆̀же въ не́мъ хотѧ̑щаѧ приключи́тисѧ мнѣ̀ не вѣ́дый: 23 то́чїю ꙗ҆́кѡ дх҃ъ ст҃ы́й по всѧ̑ гра́ды свидѣ́тельствꙋетъ, гл҃ѧ, ꙗ҆́кѡ ᲂу҆́зы менѐ и҆ скѡ́рби ждꙋ́тъ. 24 Но ни є҆ди́но же попече́нїе творю̀, нижѐ и҆́мамъ дꙋ́шꙋ мою̀ че́стнꙋ себѣ̀, ра́звѣ є҆́же сконча́ти тече́нїе моѐ съ ра́достїю и҆ слꙋ́жбꙋ, ю҆́же прїѧ́хъ ѿ гдⷭа і҆и҃са, засвидѣ́тельствовати є҆ѵⷢ҇лїе блгⷣти бж҃їѧ. 25 И҆ нн҃ѣ, сѐ, а҆́зъ вѣ́мъ, ꙗ҆́кѡ ктомꙋ̀ не ᲂу҆́зрите лица̀ моегѡ̀ вы̀ всѝ, въ ни́хже проидо́хъ проповѣ́дꙋѧ црⷭ҇твїе бж҃їе. 26 Тѣ́мже свидѣ́тельствꙋю ва́мъ во дне́шнїй де́нь, ꙗ҆́кѡ чи́стъ а҆́зъ ѿ кро́ве всѣ́хъ, 27 не ѡ҆бинꙋ́хсѧ бо сказа́ти ва́мъ всю̀ во́лю бж҃їю. 28 Внима́йте ᲂу҆̀бо себѣ̀ и҆ всемꙋ̀ ста́дꙋ, въ не́мже ва́съ дх҃ъ ст҃ы́й поста́ви є҆пі́скопы, пастѝ цр҃ковь гдⷭ҇а и҆ бг҃а, ю҆́же стѧжа̀ кро́вїю свое́ю. 29 А҆́зъ бо вѣ́мъ сїѐ, ꙗ҆́кѡ по ѿше́ствїи мое́мъ вни́дꙋтъ во́лцы тѧ́жцы въ ва́съ, не щадѧ́щїи ста́да: 30 и҆ ѿ ва́съ самѣ́хъ воста́нꙋтъ мꙋ́жїе глаго́лющїи развращє́наѧ, є҆́же ѿторга́ти ᲂу҆чн҃кѝ в̾слѣ́дъ себє̀. 31 Сегѡ̀ ра́ди бди́те, помина́юще, ꙗ҆́кѡ трѝ лѣ̑та но́щь и҆ де́нь не престаѧ́хъ ᲂу҆чѧ̀ со слеза́ми є҆ди́наго кого́ждо ва́съ. 32 И҆ нн҃ѣ предаю̀ ва́съ, бра́тїе, бг҃ови и҆ сло́вꙋ блгⷣти є҆гѡ̀, могꙋ́щемꙋ назда́ти и҆ да́ти ва́мъ наслѣ́дїе во ѡ҆сщ҃е́нныхъ всѣ́хъ. 33 Сребра̀ и҆лѝ зла́та и҆лѝ ри́зъ ни є҆ди́нагѡ возжела́хъ: 34 са́ми вѣ́сте, ꙗ҆́кѡ тре́бованїю моемꙋ̀ и҆ сꙋ́щымъ со мно́ю послꙋжи́стѣ рꙋ́цѣ моѝ сі́и. 35 Всѧ̑ сказа́хъ ва́мъ, ꙗ҆́кѡ та́кѡ трꙋжда́ющымсѧ подоба́етъ застꙋпа́ти немощны́ѧ, помина́ти же сло́во гдⷭ҇а і҆и҃са, ꙗ҆́кѡ са́мъ речѐ: бл҃же́ннѣе є҆́сть па́че даѧ́ти, не́жели прїима́ти. 36 И҆ сїѧ̑ ре́къ, прекло́нь кѡлѣ́на своѧ̑, со всѣ́ми и҆́ми помоли́сѧ. 37 Мно́гъ же бы́сть пла́чь всѣ̑мъ: и҆ напа́дше на вы́ю па́ѵловꙋ, ѡ҆блобыза́хꙋ є҆го̀, 38 скорбѧ́ще наипа́че ѡ҆ словесѝ, є҆́же речѐ, ꙗ҆́кѡ ктомꙋ̀ не и҆́мꙋтъ лица̀ є҆гѡ̀ ᲂу҆зрѣ́ти. Провожда́хꙋ же є҆го̀ въ кора́бль.
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Notes on this text (3)
- Church Slavonic in its traditional (Synodal) spelling, with accents, breathings and titlo abbreviations, shown in the Ponomar font (SIL Open Font License).
- Exodus 36–39 follow the Septuagint's order; the digital source has no verse divisions there, so Exodus 36:8–end and chapters 37, 38 and 39 each appear as one block.
- Not shown: the lectionary pericope numbers (зача́ло) and the marginal glosses of the digital source. The Prayer of Manasseh stands at the end of 2 Chronicles (36:24), as in the Slavonic Bible; the prologue of Sirach and the opening verse of Lamentations are joined to verse 1.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Aristarchus
A Thessalonian who traveled with Paul, was seized in the Ephesus riot, sailed with him to Rome, and is called Paul's fellow prisoner.
Cited in the guide: Acts 19:29; Acts 20:4; Acts 27:2
Eutychus
A young man who fell asleep during Paul's long talk, fell from a third-story window, and was taken up dead; Paul embraced him and he was restored alive.
Cited in the guide: Acts 20:9
Gaius
Pyrrhus
Secundus
Sopater
A man from Berea, son of Pyrrhus, who accompanied Paul into Asia.
Cited in the guide: Acts 20:4
Trophimus
An Ephesian who accompanied Paul; Jews at Jerusalem falsely claimed Paul had brought him into the temple, and Paul later left him sick at Miletus.
Cited in the guide: Acts 20:4; Acts 21:29; 2 Timothy 4:20
Tychicus
A man from Asia who traveled with Paul; Paul calls him a beloved brother and faithful servant and sent him with letters to Ephesus, Colossae, and elsewhere.
Cited in the guide: Acts 20:4; Ephesians 6:21; Colossians 4:7
Places
Antioch (Syrian)
The empire's third-largest city and the first major Gentile church — the launching base for Paul's journeys. (Distinct from Pisidian Antioch.)
Cited in the guide: Acts 11:26; Acts 13:1-3; Galatians 2:11
Caesarea Maritima
The Roman administrative capital of Judea. Peter brought the gospel to the Gentile Cornelius here, and Paul was imprisoned before appealing his case to Caesar.
Cited in the guide: Acts 10:1; Acts 23:23; Acts 25:11
Corinth
Corinth straddled the isthmus linking mainland Greece to the Peloponnese — a hub of commerce and immorality. Paul founded the church here; a Roman bema traditionally linked to his hearing before…
Cited in the guide: Acts 18:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:1
Ephesus
The chief city of Roman Asia, famed for the temple of Artemis. Paul's long ministry sparked the silversmiths' riot; the city is also the first addressed in Revelation.
Cited in the guide: Acts 19:1; Acts 19:28; Revelation 2:1
Jerusalem
Set high in the Judean hills (~2,500 ft), Jerusalem was David's royal city, the site of the First and Second Temples, and the stage for Jesus' passion and the church's birth at Pentecost.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 5:6-9; Luke 19:41; Acts 1:8
Philippi
A Roman colony on the Via Egnatia and the site of Paul's first European converts — a beloved church to which he later wrote from prison.
Cited in the guide: Acts 16:12; Acts 16:25; Philippians 1:1
Miletus
Cross references (37)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 7:5; Acts 19:21; 1 Timothy 1:3; Genesis 48:10; Romans 16:16
- 2 1 Thessalonians 4:1; Colossians 1:28; 1 Thessalonians 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; Acts 20:11
- 3 Acts 20:19; 2 Corinthians 11:26; Acts 9:23–24; Acts 25:3; 2 Corinthians 7:5
- 4 Acts 19:29; Ephesians 6:21; 2 Timothy 4:20; Acts 16:1; Acts 21:29
- 5 Acts 16:8; 2 Corinthians 2:12; Acts 16:10–11; 2 Timothy 4:13; Acts 20:6–8
- 6 Acts 12:3; Exodus 12:14–15; Acts 16:12; Exodus 23:15; 2 Timothy 4:13
- 7 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; John 20:19; John 20:1; Revelation 1:10
- 8 Acts 1:13; Luke 22:12
- 9 Mark 13:36; Matthew 26:40–41; Mark 9:26; Jonah 1:5–6; Acts 14:19
- 10 Mark 5:39; John 11:40; Matthew 9:23–24; John 11:11; 1 Kings 17:21–22
- 11 Acts 20:7; Acts 20:9
- 12 2 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Isaiah 40:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:2
- 13 Mark 6:46; Mark 1:35; Mark 6:31–33
- 15 2 Timothy 4:20; Acts 20:17
- 16 1 Corinthians 16:8; Acts 2:1; Acts 19:21; Acts 20:6; Acts 18:21
- 17 1 Timothy 5:17; Acts 11:30; Titus 1:5; Acts 20:28; James 5:14
- 18 1 Thessalonians 1:5–6; Acts 19:1; Acts 18:19; Acts 19:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9
- 19 Colossians 3:24; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 2 Corinthians 4:7–11; Romans 12:11; Acts 20:3
- 20 Acts 20:27; 2 Timothy 4:2; Acts 5:42; Acts 20:31; Colossians 1:28
- 21 Acts 2:38; 1 John 5:11–13; Acts 11:18; Luke 13:3; Luke 24:47
- 22 James 4:14; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Luke 18:31–33; 2 Peter 1:14; Luke 9:51
- 23 Acts 9:16; Acts 21:4; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; Acts 14:22; Acts 21:33
- 24 2 Timothy 4:6–8; 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Acts 21:13
- 25 Acts 28:31; Acts 20:38; Matthew 4:23; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 10:7
- 26 Acts 18:6; John 12:17; Ezekiel 3:18–21; Ezekiel 33:2–9; 1 Thessalonians 2:10–12
- 27 Acts 20:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2; Galatians 4:16; Jeremiah 23:22
- 28 1 Peter 5:2–3; 1 Timothy 4:16; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Isaiah 40:11; 1 Timothy 3:2
- 29 Matthew 7:15; 2 Peter 2:1; Luke 10:3; Acts 20:28; John 10:12
- 30 1 Timothy 1:19–20; 2 Timothy 4:3–4; Proverbs 23:33; 1 John 2:19; Proverbs 19:1
- 31 Acts 19:8; Acts 19:10; Acts 20:19; Ezekiel 3:17–20; Hebrews 13:17
- 32 Colossians 1:12; Ephesians 1:14; Acts 26:18; Colossians 3:24; Ephesians 1:18
- 33 2 Corinthians 11:9; 1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:5
- 34 Acts 18:3; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; Acts 19:22; 1 Thessalonians 2:9
- 35 Hebrews 13:16; Proverbs 19:17; 2 Corinthians 9:6–12; Luke 14:12–14; Matthew 10:8
- 36 Acts 21:5; Luke 22:41; Acts 7:60; Philippians 4:6; Daniel 6:10
- 37 2 Timothy 1:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 2 Corinthians 13:12; Luke 15:20; 1 Corinthians 16:20
- 38 Acts 15:3; Acts 20:25; 1 Corinthians 16:11; Acts 21:16; Acts 21:5
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
There was need of much comforting after that uproar. Accordingly, having done this, he goes into Macedonia, and then into Greece. For, it says, "when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, and there abode three months.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
Moreover, ye were all distinguished by humility, and were in no respect puffed up with pride, but yielded obedience rather than extorted it, and were more willing to give than to receive. Content with the provision which God had made for you, and carefully attending to His words, ye were inwardly filled with His doctrine, and His sufferings were before …
Therefore also with regard to Paul, that he wept, that he did so three years night and day, both he hath said of himself, and others say this of him; but that he laughed, neither hath he said himself anywhere, neither hath so much as one other of the saints, either concerning him, or any other like him; but this …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
From this what perverse and impious dogmas have been imagined! What grievous wolves, tearing the flock of the Lord, have sprung from these words to cast themselves upon souls!
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
Declaring this, Paul said, "Without were fightings, within were fears;" and, "In perils among false brethren;" and in his discourse to the Milesians too He said, "Also of you shall some arise speaking perverse things;" and He Himself too said, "The man's foes shall be they of his own household." But when He said, "It must needs be," it is …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)