8. Many lamps were burning in the upstairs room where we were meeting.
9. A young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus got sleepier and sleepier, until he finally went sound asleep and fell from the third storey to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.
10. But Paul went down and threw himself on him and hugged him. “Don't worry,” he said, “he is still alive!”
11. Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. After talking with them for a long time, even until sunrise, Paul left.
12. They took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.
13. We went on ahead to the ship and sailed off to Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had told us to do this, because he was going there by land.
14. When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
15. We sailed from there and arrived off Chios the next day. A day later we came to Samos, and the following day we reached Miletus.
16. Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, so as not to lose any time in the province of Asia. He was in a hurry to arrive in Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost, if at all possible.
17. From Miletus Paul sent a message to Ephesus, asking the elders of the church to meet him.
18. When they arrived, he said to them, “You know how I spent the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
19. With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord's servant during the hard times that came to me because of the plots of some Jews.
20. You know that I did not hold back anything that would be of help to you as I preached and taught in public and in your homes.
21. To Jews and Gentiles alike I gave solemn warning that they should turn from their sins to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.
22. And now, in obedience to the Holy Spirit I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.