Paul leaves Ephesus - Acts 20:1-6 - N. T. -

When the disturbance was over, Paul sent for the disciples and, after speaking words of encouragement to them, said goodbye and set out to Macedonia. On his way through those areas he said many words of encouragement to them and then made his way into Greece, where he spent three months. He was leaving by ship for Syria when a plot organised against him by the Jews made him decide to go back by way of Macedonia. He was accompanied by Sopater, son of Pyrrhus, who came from Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus who came from Thessalonika; Gaius from Doberus, and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus who were from Asia. They all went on to Troas where they waited for us. We ourselves left Philippi by ship after the days of Unleavened Bread and met them five days later at Troas, where we stopped for a week. 

Cf. - Acts 14:22; 16:40 -

Cf. - 1 Corinthians 16:5 - N. T. - I shall be coming to you after I have passed through Macedonia - and I am doing no more than pass through Macedonia.

Cf. - Acts 9:23; 23:12f - 

Cf. - 1 Thessalonians 2:14+ - N. T. - For you, my brothers, have been like the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea, in  suffering the same treatment from your own countrymen as they suffered from the Jews.

Cf. - Acts 19:29 - N. T. - 

Cf. - Romans 16:21-22 - N. T. - Timothy, who is working with me, sends his greetings; so do my compatriots, Lucius, Jason and Sosipater. I, Tertius, who wrote out this letter, greet you in the Lord.

Cf. - Acts 16:1+; 19:22+; 21:29 - N. T. -

Cf. - 2 Timothy 4:19-21 - N. T. - Greetings to Prisca and Aquila, and the family of Onesiphorus. Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus ill at Miletus.

Troas: Paul raises a dead man to life - Acts 20:7-12 - N. T. -

On the first day of the week we met to break bread. Paul was due to leave the next day, and he preached a sermon that went on till the middle of the night. A number of lamps were lit in the upstairs room where we were assembled, and as Paul went on and on, a young man called Eutychus who was sitting on the window-sill grew drowsy and was overcome by sleep and fell to the ground three floor below. He was picked up dead. Paul went down and stooped to clasp the boy to him. 'There is no need to worry,' he said 'there is still life in him.' Then he went back upstairs where he broke bread and ate and carried on talking till he left at daybreak. They took the boy away alive, and were greatly encouraged.

Cf. - Acts 2:42+; 9:36-42 -

Cf. - I Kings 17:17-24 - O. T. - It happened after this that the son of the mistress of the house fell sick; his illness was so severe that in the end he had no breath left in him. And the woman said to Elijah, 'What quarrel have you with me, man of God?  Have you come here to bring my sins home to me and to kill my son?' 'Give me your son' he said, and taking him from her lap, carried him to the upper room where he was staying and laid him on his own bed. He cried out to Yahweh, 'Yahweh my God, do you mean to bring grief to the widow who is looking after me by killing her son?' He stretched himself on the child three times and cried out to Yahweh, 'Yahweh my God, may the soul of this child, I beg you, come into him again!' Yahweh heard the prayer of Elijah and the soul of the child returned to him again and he revived. Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. 'Look, 'Elijah said 'your son is alive.' And the woman replied, 'Now I know you are a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth itself'. 

Cf. - 2 Kings 4:30-37 - O. T. - But the child's mother said, 'As Yahweh lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you'. Then he stood up and followed her. Gehazi had gone ahead of them and had stretched out the staff over the child, but there was no sound or response. H e went back to meet Elisha and told him. 'The child has not woken up' he said. Elisha then went to the house, and there on his bed lay the child, dead. He went in and shut the door on the two of them and prayed to Yahweh. Then he climbed on to the bed and stretched himself on top of the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes to his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and as he lowered  on to him, the child's flesh grew warm. Then he got up and walked to and from inside the house, and then climbed on to the bed again and lowered himself on to the child seven times in all; then the child sneezed and opened his eyes. He then summoned Gehazi.'Call our Shunammitess' he said; and he called her. When she came to him, he said, 'Take up your son'. She went in and, falling at his feet, bowed down to the ground; and taking up her son went out. 

Cf. - Mark 5:39 - N. T. - 'Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.'

From Troas to Miletus - Acts 20:13-16 - N. T. -

We were now to go on ahead by sea, so we set sail for Assos, where we were to take Paul on board; this was what he had arranged, for he wanted to go by road. When he rejoined us at Assos we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. The next day we sailed from there and arrived opposite Chios. The second day we touched at Samos and, after stopping at Trogyllium, made Miletus the next day. Paul had decided to pass wide of Ephesus so as to avoid spending time in Asia, since he was anxious to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost.

Cf. - Acts 24:11 -                                           -  PAGE  132  -

Farewell to the elders of Ephesus

From Miletus he sent for the.......               -  PAGE  133  -

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