1 Cuando cesó el alboroto, Pablo llamó y exhortó a los discípulos. Se despidió y partió a Macedonia. 2 Recorrió aquellas regiones, los exhortó con mucha enseñanza y llegó a Grecia. 3 Después de tres meses cuando iba a embarcarse para Siria, los judíos tramaron un complot contra él. Así que decidió regresar por Macedonia. 4 Lo acompañaban Sópater, [hijo] de Pirro, de Berea; Aristarco y Segundo, de Tesalonica; Gayo y Timoteo, de Derbe; y Tíquico y Trófimo, de Asia. 5 Ellos se adelantaron, y nos esperaban en Troas. 6 Nosotros, después de los días de los Panes sin Levadura, navegamos desde Filipos. En cinco días nos reunimos con ellos en Troas, donde pasamos siete días. 7 El primer día de la semana nos reunimos para partir [el] pan. Pablo, quien salía el día siguiente, les hablaba y prolongó el mensaje hasta medianoche. 8 Había muchas lámparas en el aposento alto donde estábamos reunidos. 9 Pablo habló largamente. Un muchacho llamado Eutico, que estaba sentado en la ventana, se quedó profundamente dormido, cayó desde el tercer piso y murió. 10 Entonces Pablo bajó y se tendió sobre él. Lo abrazó y dijo: ¡No se aflijan, porque está vivo! 11 Pablo subió, partió el pan y comió. Habló largamente hasta [el] amanecer y salió. 12 Llevaron vivo al muchacho, y se consolaron mucho. 13 Pablo iba por tierra a Asón. Nosotros fuimos hasta la nave con anticipación, y zarpamos hacia Asón para embarcar allí a Pablo, según los planes. 14 Se encontraron con nosotros en Asón, subió a bordo, y navegamos a Mitilene. 15 Zarpamos de allí y el día siguiente llegamos frente a Quío. El otro día, llegamos cerca de Samos. Y el próximo llegamos a Mileto. 16 Pablo decidió navegar sin escala en Éfeso para no demorarse en Asia, porque iba de prisa para llegar a Jerusalén, si fuera posible, el día de Pentecostés. 17 [Pablo] envió [un mensaje] a Éfeso desde Mileto para llamar a los ancianos de la iglesia. 18 Cuando llegaron les dijo: Saben cómo me conduje con ustedes todo el tiempo, desde el día cuando llegué a Asia. 19 Serví al Señor con toda humildad, lágrimas y pruebas que me llegaron por las maquinaciones de los judíos. 20 No me negué a predicarles las cosas provechosas y enseñarles públicamente y de casa en casa. 21 Testifiqué solemnemente a judíos y a griegos sobre el cambio de mente hacia Dios, y la fe en nuestro Señor Jesús. 22 Ahora miren, voy a Jerusalén atado en el espíritu, sin saber lo que me sucederá allá. 23 En cada ciudad el Espíritu Santo me da a entender solemnemente que me esperan cadenas y aflicciones. 24 Pero por ningún motivo considero mi vida valiosa, con tal que termine mi carrera y el ministerio que recibí del Señor Jesús para proclamar solemnemente las Buenas Noticias de la gracia de Dios. 25 Ahora escuchen: Yo sé que ninguno de ustedes entre quienes estuve para predicar el reino, volverá a ver mi rostro. 26 Por tanto, hoy les declaro que estoy limpio de la sangre de todos, 27 porque no me refrené en anunciarles todo el consejo de Dios. 28 Tengan cuidado de ustedes mismos y de todo el rebaño en el cual el Espíritu Santo los puso como supervisores para apacentar la iglesia de Dios, la cual adquirió por medio de su propia sangre. 29 Yo sé que después de mi partida se levantarán entre ustedes lobos feroces que no perdonan al rebaño. 30 De entre ustedes mismos se levantarán hombres que hablarán cosas depravadas para arrastrar a los discípulos tras ellos. 31 Por tanto, velen. Recuerden que noche y día durante tres años, no me cansé de amonestar con lágrimas a cada uno. 32 Ahora, los encomiendo a Dios y a la Palabra de su gracia, la cual puede edificar y dar la herencia a todos los santificados. 33 De nadie codicié plata, ni oro, ni ropa. 34 Ustedes saben que estas manos sirvieron para mis necesidades y para los que estaban conmigo. 35 En todo les demostré que al trabajar de este modo es necesario socorrer a los débiles, y recordar las Palabras del Señor Jesús, pues Él mismo dijo: Más inmensamente feliz es el que da que el que recibe. 36 Cuando terminó de hablar esto, se arrodilló y habló con Dios en compañía de ellos. 37 Entonces brotó un gran llanto de todos. Abrazaron a Pablo y lo besaban. 38 Estaban muy tristes por la palabra que les dijo: que ya no volverían a ver su rostro. Y lo acompañaron hasta el barco.
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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
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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)