1 μετα δε το παυσασθαι τον θορυβον προσκαλεσαμενοσ ο παυλοσ τουσ μαθητασ και ασπασαμενοσ εξηλθεν πορευθηναι εισ την μακεδονιαν 2 διελθων δε τα μερη εκεινα και παρακαλεσασ αυτουσ λογω πολλω ηλθεν εισ την ελλαδα 3 ποιησασ τε μηνασ τρεισ γενομενησ αυτω επιβουλησ υπο των ιουδαιων μελλοντι αναγεσθαι εισ την συριαν εγενετο γνωμη του υποστρεφειν δια μακεδονιασ 4 συνειπετο δε αυτω αχρι τησ ασιασ σωπατροσ βεροιαιοσ θεσσαλονικεων δε αρισταρχοσ και σεκουνδοσ και γαιοσ δερβαιοσ και τιμοθεοσ ασιανοι δε τυχικοσ και τροφιμοσ 5 ουτοι προσελθοντεσ εμενον ημασ εν τρωαδι 6 ημεισ δε εξεπλευσαμεν μετα τασ ημερασ των αζυμων απο φιλιππων και ηλθομεν προσ αυτουσ εισ την τρωαδα αχρι ημερων πεντε ου διετριψαμεν ημερασ επτα 7 εν δε τη μια των σαββατων συνηγμενων των μαθητων κλασαι αρτον ο παυλοσ διελεγετο αυτοισ μελλων εξιεναι τη επαυριον παρετεινεν τε τον λογον μεχρι μεσονυκτιου 8 ησαν δε λαμπαδεσ ικαναι εν τω υπερωω ου ημεν συνηγμενοι 9 καθημενοσ δε τισ νεανιασ ονοματι ευτυχοσ επι τησ θυριδοσ καταφερομενοσ υπνω βαθει διαλεγομενου του παυλου επι πλειον κατενεχθεισ απο του υπνου επεσεν απο του τριστεγου κατω και ηρθη νεκροσ 10 καταβασ δε ο παυλοσ επεπεσεν αυτω και συμπεριλαβων ειπεν μη θορυβεισθε η γαρ ψυχη αυτου εν αυτω εστιν 11 αναβασ δε και κλασασ αρτον και γευσαμενοσ εφ ικανον τε ομιλησασ αχρι αυγησ ουτωσ εξηλθεν 12 ηγαγον δε τον παιδα ζωντα και παρεκληθησαν ου μετριωσ 13 ημεισ δε προσελθοντεσ επι το πλοιον ανηχθημεν εισ την ασσον εκειθεν μελλοντεσ αναλαμβανειν τον παυλον ουτωσ γαρ ην διατεταγμενοσ μελλων αυτοσ πεζευειν 14 ωσ δε συνεβαλεν ημιν εισ την ασσον αναλαβοντεσ αυτον ηλθομεν εισ μιτυληνην 15 κακειθεν αποπλευσαντεσ τη επιουση κατηντησαμεν αντικρυ χιου τη δε ετερα παρεβαλομεν εισ σαμον και μειναντεσ εν τρωγυλλιω τη εχομενη ηλθομεν εισ μιλητον 16 εκρινεν γαρ ο παυλοσ παραπλευσαι την εφεσον οπωσ μη γενηται αυτω χρονοτριβησαι εν τη ασια εσπευδεν γαρ ει δυνατον ην αυτω την ημεραν τησ πεντηκοστησ γενεσθαι εισ ιεροσολυμα 17 απο δε τησ μιλητου πεμψασ εισ εφεσον μετεκαλεσατο τουσ πρεσβυτερουσ τησ εκκλησιασ 18 ωσ δε παρεγενοντο προσ αυτον ειπεν αυτοισ υμεισ επιστασθε απο πρωτησ ημερασ αφ ησ επεβην εισ την ασιαν πωσ μεθ υμων τον παντα χρονον εγενομην 19 δουλευων τω κυριω μετα πασησ ταπεινοφροσυνησ και πολλων δακρυων και πειρασμων των συμβαντων μοι εν ταισ επιβουλαισ των ιουδαιων 20 ωσ ουδεν υπεστειλαμην των συμφεροντων του μη αναγγειλαι υμιν και διδαξαι υμασ δημοσια και κατ οικουσ 21 διαμαρτυρομενοσ ιουδαιοισ τε και ελλησιν την εισ τον θεον μετανοιαν και πιστιν την εισ τον κυριον ημων ιησουν 22 και νυν ιδου εγω δεδεμενοσ τω πνευματι πορευομαι εισ ιερουσαλημ τα εν αυτη συναντησοντα μοι μη ειδωσ 23 πλην οτι το πνευμα το αγιον κατα πολιν διαμαρτυρεται λεγον οτι δεσμα με και θλιψεισ μενουσιν 24 αλλ ουδενοσ λογον ποιουμαι ουδε εχω την ψυχην μου τιμιαν εμαυτω ωσ τελειωσαι τον δρομον μου μετα χαρασ και την διακονιαν ην ελαβον παρα του κυριου ιησου διαμαρτυρασθαι το ευαγγελιον τησ χαριτοσ του θεου 25 και νυν ιδου εγω οιδα οτι ουκετι οψεσθε το προσωπον μου υμεισ παντεσ εν οισ διηλθον κηρυσσων την βασιλειαν του θεου 26 διοτι μαρτυρομαι υμιν εν τη σημερον ημερα οτι καθαροσ εγω απο του αιματοσ παντων 27 ου γαρ υπεστειλαμην του μη αναγγειλαι υμιν πασαν την βουλην του θεου 28 προσεχετε ουν εαυτοισ και παντι τω ποιμνιω εν ω υμασ το πνευμα το αγιον εθετο επισκοπουσ ποιμαινειν την εκκλησιαν του κυριου και θεου ην περιεποιησατο δια του ιδιου αιματοσ 29 εγω γαρ οιδα τουτο οτι εισελευσονται μετα την αφιξιν μου λυκοι βαρεισ εισ υμασ μη φειδομενοι του ποιμνιου 30 και εξ υμων αυτων αναστησονται ανδρεσ λαλουντεσ διεστραμμενα του αποσπαν τουσ μαθητασ οπισω αυτων 31 διο γρηγορειτε μνημονευοντεσ οτι τριετιαν νυκτα και ημεραν ουκ επαυσαμην μετα δακρυων νουθετων ενα εκαστον 32 και τα νυν παρατιθεμαι υμασ αδελφοι τω θεω και τω λογω τησ χαριτοσ αυτου τω δυναμενω εποικοδομησαι και δουναι υμιν κληρονομιαν εν τοισ ηγιασμενοισ πασιν 33 αργυριου η χρυσιου η ιματισμου ουδενοσ επεθυμησα 34 αυτοι γινωσκετε οτι ταισ χρειαισ μου και τοισ ουσιν μετ εμου υπηρετησαν αι χειρεσ αυται 35 παντα υπεδειξα υμιν οτι ουτωσ κοπιωντασ δει αντιλαμβανεσθαι των ασθενουντων μνημονευειν τε των λογων του κυριου ιησου οτι αυτοσ ειπεν μακαριον εστιν μαλλον διδοναι η λαμβανειν 36 και ταυτα ειπων θεισ τα γονατα αυτου συν πασιν αυτοισ προσηυξατο 37 ικανοσ δε εγενετο κλαυθμοσ παντων και επιπεσοντεσ επι τον τραχηλον του παυλου κατεφιλουν αυτον 38 οδυνωμενοι μαλιστα επι τω λογω ω ειρηκει οτι ουκετι μελλουσιν το προσωπον αυτου θεωρειν προεπεμπον δε αυτον εισ το πλοιον
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- Romans 16:25–27 stands after 14:23 (as 14:24–26), as in most Byzantine manuscripts.
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)