# Acts 20 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Acts Overview]]. [[Acts 19]]. [[Acts 21]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] [[#📄 Outline]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) #### Paul Travels Through Macedonia and Greece **Principle**: Ministry is a team sport. [[#Verse 01.]] After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.  [[#Verse 02.]] After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,  [[#Verse 03.]] where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.  [[#Verse 04.]] Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.  [[#Verse 05.]] These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.  [[#Verse 06.]] We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days. [[#Verse 07.]] On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.  [[#Verse 08.]] (Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)  [[#Verse 09.]] A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.  [[#Verse 10.]] But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”  [[#Verse 11.]] Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.  [[#Verse 12.]] They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted. ### The Voyage to Miletus **Principle**: We make plans, God directs our steps. [[#Verse 13.]] We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.  [[#Verse 14.]] When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.  [[#Verse 15.]] We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.  [[#Verse 16.]] For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.  ### Farewell Address to the Ephesian Elders **Principle**: Live in such a way you have no regrets. [[#Verse 17.]] From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him. [[#Verse 18.]] When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,  [[#Verse 19.]] serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.  [[#Verse 20.]] You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,  [[#Verse 21.]] testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.  [[#Verse 22.]] And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,  [[#Verse 23.]] except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.  [[#Verse 24.]] But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace. [[#Verse 25.]] “And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.  [[#Verse 26.]] Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.  [[#Verse 27.]] For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.  [[#Verse 28.]] Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.  [[#Verse 29.]] I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.  [[#Verse 30.]] Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.  [[#Verse 31.]] Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.  [[#Verse 32.]] And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.  [[#Verse 33.]] I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.  [[#Verse 34.]] You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.  [[#Verse 35.]] By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” [[#Verse 36.]] When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.  [[#Verse 37.]] They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,  [[#Verse 38.]] especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompaniedhim to the ship. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ##### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Coming Soon. - ✅ Coming Soon. ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection [[Acts 20 - SOAP]] ## 📄 Outline Title: A Guide to Long-Term Ministry (Acts 20: 18-21) **18** When they arrived he declared, “You know that from the day I set foot in the province of Asia until now **19** I have done the Lord’s work humbly and with many tears. I have endured the trials that came to me from the plots of the Jews. **20** I never shrank back from telling you what you needed to hear, either publicly or in your homes. **21** I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike—the necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God, and of having faith in our Lord Jesus. **Big Idea**- A long-term ministry takes a long-term vision. 1- (verse 19) Decide to humbly endure. 2- (verse 20) Decide to humbly point to the truth. 3- (verse 21) Decide to keep the main thing the main thing. ## 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes