Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus
Hurrying to reach Jerusalem by Pentecost, Paul called the elders of Ephesus to meet him at Miletus. He reminded them of his example, warned them of wolves to come, and told them they would not see his face again.
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’
Acts 20:35 (World English Bible)
At Troas on the way, Paul talked until midnight and a young man named Eutychus fell asleep and dropped from a window; Paul raised him up (Acts 20:7–12). At Miletus the elders wept and embraced him, and they all knelt down and prayed together.
Places
JerusalemMacedoniaAsiaEphesusSyriaGreeceTroasPhilippiMiletusAssosChiosMityleneSamosTrogyllium
Dating notes
In the spring after the Passover season (Acts 20:6, 16) of about AD 57. Dates for Paul's journeys follow the conventional chronology, anchored by an inscription at Delphi, found in 1905, that dates Gallio's term as proconsul of Achaia (Acts 18:12) to AD 51–52; Ussher, who could not have known it, runs two to three years later.