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And they took the lad away alive, and were not a little comforted.
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But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.
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And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mityle'ne.
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And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chi'os; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we came to Mile'tus.
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For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
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And from Mile'tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
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And when they came to him, he said to them: "You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
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serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews;
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how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
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testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what shall befall me there;