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They had taken the lad home alive, and were greatly comforted.
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The rest of us had already gone on board a ship, and now we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there; for so he had arranged, he himself intending to go by land.
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Accordingly, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
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Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios. On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day following reached Miletus.
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For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.
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From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the Elders of the Church to come to him.
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Upon their arrival he said to them, "You Elders well know, from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia, the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,
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serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews--
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and that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, or from teaching you in public and in your homes,
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and urging upon both Jews and Greeks the necessity of turning to God and of believing in Jesus our Lord.
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"And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,