1 Y después que cesó el alboroto, llamando Pablo á los discípulos, y haciéndoles una exhortacion, se despidió de ellos, y se partió para ir á Macedonia. 2 Y después que hubo andado aquellas tierras, y de haberles exhortado allí con muchas palabras, se vino á la Grecia. 3 En donde habiendo estado tres meses, le fuéron puestas asechanzas por los Judíos, estando él para navegar á la Syria: y asi acordó volverse por Macedonia. 4 Y le acompañáron Sopatro de Beréa, hijo de Pyrrho: y de los de Thesalónica, Aristarcho, y Secundo, y Gayo Derbéo, y Thimothéo: y de los de Asia, Tychico, y Trophimo. 5 Estos fuéron delante, y nos esperáron en Troade. 6 Y nosotros después de los días de los Azymos nos hicimos á la vela desde Philipos, y llegamos á ellos á Troade en cinco días, y nos detuvimos allí siete días. 7 Y el primer día de la semana, habiéndonos juntado para partir el pan, Pablo que se había de ir al otro día, disputaba con ellos, y fué alargando el discurso hasta media noche. 8 Y había muchas lámparas en el cenáculo, en donde estábamos congregados. 9 Y un mancebo, por nombre Eútycho, se sentó sobre una ventana, y como se durmiese profundamente entre tanto que Pablo prolongaba su razonamiento, llevado del sueño, cayó abaxo desde el tercer alto de la casa, y lo alzáron muerto. 10 Al qual habiendo descendido Pablo, se recostó sobre él, y abrazándolo dixo: No os turbéis, que su alma en él está. 11 Y subiendo y partiendo el pan, comió, y les habló largamente hasta que fué de día, y después se fué. 12 Y lleváron vivo al mancebo, de lo que recibieron extraordinario consuelo. 13 Mas nosotros entrando en el navío, fuimos á Asón, para recibir de allí á Pablo: porque así lo habia él dispuesto, debiendo hacer el viage por tierra. 14 Y habién lose juntado con nosotros en Asón, lo tomamos, y fuimos á Mitylene. 15 Y navegando desde allí el día siguiente, nos pusimos enfrente de Chîo; y al otro, tomamos puerto en Samos, y en el siguiente llegamos á Mileto. 16 Porque Pablo había determinado pasar adelante de Epheso por no detenerse en el Asia: pues se apresuraba quanto le era posible, por celebrar en Jerusalém el día de Pentecostes. 17 Y enviando desde Mileto á Epheso, llamó á los Ancianos de la Iglesia. 18 Ellos vinieron á él, y estando todos juntos, les dixo: Vosotros sabéis desde el primer día que entré en el Asia, de qué manera me he portado todo el tiempo que he estado con vosotros, 19 Sirviendo al Señor con toda humildad y con lágrimas y con tentaciones, que me viniéron por las asechanzas de los Judíos: 20 Como nada que os fuese útil me he retraído de decíroslo, y de enseñaros en público y por las casas, 21 Predicando á los Judíos y á los Gentiles la conversión á Dios, y la fé en nuestro Señor Jesu-Christo. 22 Y ahora he aqui que yo, constreñido del Espíritu, voy á Jerusalém: no sabiendo las cosas, que allí me han de acontecer: 23 Sino lo que el Espíritu Santo me asegura por todas las ciudades, diciendo: que me aguardan en Jerusalém prisiones y tribulaciones. 24 Mas no temo ninguna de éstas cosas, ni hago mi propia vida mas preciosa que á mí mismo con tal que acabe mi carrera, y el ministerio de la palabra, que recibí del Señor Jesús, para dar testimonio del Evangelio de la gracia de Dios. 25 Y ahora he aquí yo sé que no vereis mas mi cara todos vosotros, por los quales he pasado predicando el reyno de Dios. 26 Por tanto os protesto en éste día, que estoy limpio de la sangre de todos. 27 Porque no he rehusado el anunciaros todo el consejo de Dios. 28 Mirad por vosotros y por toda la grey, en la qual el Espíritu Santo os ha puesto por Obispos para gobernar la Iglesia de Dios, la qual él ganó con su sangre. 29 Yo sé, que después de mi partida entrarán á vosotros lobos arrebatadores, que no perdonarán á la grey. 30 Y de entre vosotros mismos se levantarán hombres, que dirán cosas perversas, para llevar discípulos tras de sí. 31 Por tanto velad, teniendo en memoria, que por tres años no he cesado noche y día de amonestar con lágrimas á cada uno de vosotros. 32 Y ahora os encomiendo á Dios, y á la palabra de su gracia, á aquel que es poderoso para edificar, y daros heredad entre todos los que son santificados. 33 No he codiciado plata, ni oro, ni vestido de ninguno, como 34 Vosotros mismos lo sabéis: porque éstas manos me han subministrado las cosas necesarias á mí, y á los que están conmigo. 35 En todo os he mostrado, que trabajando de ésta manera, conviene recibir los enfermos, y acordarse de aquellas palabras que dixo el Señor: Cosa mas bienaventurada es dar, que recibir. 36 Y habiendo dicho esto, se hincó de rodillas, é hizo oración con todos ellos. 37 Y se levantó grande llanto entre todos: y derribándose sobre el cuello de Pablo, le besaban, 38 Afligidos en gran manera por la palabra que habia dicho, que no verían mas su cara. Y le fuéron acompañando hasta el navío.
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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)