Acts 20

Question 1

Acts 20:1

Answer 1

When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said good-by and set out for Macedonia.

Question 2

Acts 20:2

Answer 2

He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece,

Question 3

Acts 20:3

Answer 3

where he stayed three months. Because the Jews made a plot against him just as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

Question 4

Acts 20:4

Answer 4

He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy also, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.

Question 5

Acts 20:5

Answer 5

These men went on ahead and waited for us at Troas.

Question 6

Acts 20:6

Answer 6

But we sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

Question 7

Acts 20:7

Answer 7

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.

Question 8

Acts 20:8

Answer 8

There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.

Question 9

Acts 20:9

Answer 9

Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.

Question 10

Acts 20:10

Answer 10

Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!”

Question 11

Acts 20:11

Answer 11

Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.

Question 12

Acts 20:12

Answer 12

The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

Question 13

Acts 20:13

Answer 13

We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot.

Question 14

Acts 20:14

Answer 14

When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.

Question 15

Acts 20:15

Answer 15

The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Kios. The day after that we crossed over to Samos, and on the following day arrived at Miletus.

Question 16

Acts 20:16

Answer 16

Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

Question 17

Acts 20:17

Answer 17

From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.

Question 18

Acts 20:18

Answer 18

When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia.

Question 19

Acts 20:19

Answer 19

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, although I was severely tested by the plots of the Jews.

Question 20

Acts 20:20

Answer 20

You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.

Question 21

Acts 20:21

Answer 21

I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

Question 22

Acts 20:22

Answer 22

“And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.

Question 23

Acts 20:23

Answer 23

I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.

Question 24

Acts 20:24

Answer 24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me–the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

Question 25

Acts 20:25

Answer 25

“Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again.

Question 26

Acts 20:26

Answer 26

Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

Question 27

Acts 20:27

Answer 27

For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God.

Question 28

Acts 20:28

Answer 28

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

Question 29

Acts 20:29

Answer 29

I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.

Question 30

Acts 20:30

Answer 30

Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.

Question 31

Acts 20:31

Answer 31

So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

Question 32

Acts 20:32

Answer 32

“Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Question 33

Acts 20:33

Answer 33

I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.

Question 34

Acts 20:34

Answer 34

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.

Question 35

Acts 20:35

Answer 35

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ “

Question 36

Acts 20:36

Answer 36

When he had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.

Question 37

Acts 20:37

Answer 37

They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.

Question 38

Acts 20:38

Answer 38

What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.