Hechos de los Apóstoles 20

1Luego que el tumulto cesó, convocó Pablo a los discípulos, los exhortó, y despidiéndose salió para ir a Macedonia.

2Y después de recorrer aquellas regiones, exhortándolos con muchas palabras, llegó a Grecia,

3donde pasó tres meses; mas cuando ya estaba para ir a Siria, los judíos le armaron asechanzas, por lo cual tomó la resolución de regresar por Macedonia.

4Le acompañaban hasta Asia: Sópatro de Berea, hijo de Pirro; Aristarco y Segundo de Tesalónica, Gayo de Derbe, y Timoteo, Tíquico y Trófimo de Asia.

5Estos se adelantaron y nos esperaban en Tróade.

6Nosotros, en cambio, nos dimos a la vela desde Filipos, después de los días de los Ázimos; y en cinco días los alcanzamos en Tróade, donde nos detuvimos siete días.

7El primer día de la semana nos reunimos para partir el pan, Pablo, que había de marchar al día siguiente, les predicaba, prolongando su discurso hasta la medianoche.

8Había muchas lámparas en el aposento alto donde estábamos reunidos.

9Mas un joven, de nombre Eutico, se hallaba sentado sobre la ventana sumergido en profundo sueño, y al fin, mientras Pablo extendía más su plática, cayó del tercer piso abajo, vencido del sueño, y fue levantado muerto.

10Bajó Pablo, se echó sobre él y abrazándole dijo: “No os asustéis, porque su alma está en él”.

11Luego subió, partió el pan y comió; y después de conversar largamente hasta el amanecer, así se marchó.

12Ellos se llevaron vivo al joven, y quedaron sobremanera consolados.

13Nosotros, adelantándonos en la nave, dimos vela a Asón, donde habíamos de recibir a Pablo. Lo había dispuesto así, queriendo irse él a pie.

14Cuando nos alcanzó en Asón, le recogimos y vinimos a Mitilene.

15Navegando de allí, nos encontramos al día siguiente enfrente de Quío; al otro día arribamos a Samos, y al siguiente llegamos a Mileto.

16Porque Pablo había resuelto pasar de largo frente a Éfeso, para no demorarse en Asia; pues se daba prisa para estar, si le fuese posible, en Jerusalén el día de Pentecostés.

17Desde Mileto envió a Éfeso a llamar a los presbíteros de la Iglesia.

18Cuando llegaron a él les dijo: “Vosotros sabéis, desde el primer día que llegué a Asia, cómo me he portado con vosotros todo el tiempo:

19sirviendo al Señor con toda humildad, con lágrimas y pruebas que me sobrevinieron por las asechanzas de los judíos;

20y cómo nada de cuanto fuera de provecho he dejado de anunciároslo y enseñároslo en público y por las casas;

21dando testimonio a judíos y griegos sobre la conversión a Dios y la fe en nuestro Señor Jesús.

22Y ahora, he aquí que voy a Jerusalén, encadenado por el Espíritu, sin saber lo que me ha de suceder allí;

23salvo que el Espíritu Santo en cada ciudad me testifica, diciendo que me esperan cadenas y tribulaciones.

24Pero yo ninguna de estas cosas temo, ni estimo la vida mía como algo precioso para mí, con tal que concluya mi carrera y el ministerio que he recibido del Señor Jesús, y que dé testimonio del Evangelio de la gracia de Dios.

25Al presente, he aquí yo sé que no veréis más mi rostro, vosotros todos, entre quienes he andado predicando el reino de Dios.

26Por lo cual os protesto en este día que soy limpio de la sangre de todos;

27pues no he omitido anunciaros el designio entero de Dios.

28Mirad, pues, por vosotros mismos y por toda la grey, en la cual el Espíritu Santo os ha puesto por obispos, para apacentar la Iglesia del Señor, la cual Él ha adquirido con su propia sangre.

29Yo sé que después de mi partida vendrán sobre vosotros lobos voraces que no perdonarán al rebaño.

30Y de entre vosotros mismos se levantarán hombres que enseñen cosas perversas para arrastrar en pos de sí a los discípulos.

31Por tanto velad, acordándoos de que por tres años no he cesado ni de día ni de noche de amonestar con lágrimas a cada uno de vosotros.

32Ahora, os encomiendo a Dios, y a la palabra de su gracia, la cual es poderosa para edificar y para dar la herencia entre todos los santificados.

33Plata u oro o vestido no he codiciado de nadie.

34Vosotros mismos sabéis que a mis necesidades y a las de mis compañeros han servido estas manos

35En todo os di ejemplo de cómo es menester, trabajando así, sostener a los débiles, acordándose de las palabras del señor Jesús, que dijo Él mismo: “Más dichoso es dar que recibir”.

36Dicho esto, se puso de rodillas e hizo oración con todos ellos.

37Y hubo gran llanto de todos, y echándose al cuello de Pablo lo besaban,

38afligidos sobre todo por aquella palabra que había dicho, de que ya no verían su rostro. Y le acompañaron hasta el barco.

1Postquam autem cessavit tumultus, vocatis Paulus discipulis, et exhortatus eos, valedixit, et profectus est ut iret in Macedoniam.

2Cum autem perambulasset partes illas, et exhortatus eos fuisset multo sermone, venit ad Græciam:

3ubi cum fecisset menses tres, factæ sunt illi insidiæ a Judæis navigaturo in Syriam: habuitque consilium ut reverteretur per Macedoniam.

4Comitatus est autem eum Sopater Pyrrhi Berœensis, Thessalonicensium vero Aristarchus, et Secundus, et Gajus Derbeus, et Timotheus: Asiani vero Tychicus et Trophimus.

5Hi cum præcessissent, sustinuerunt nos Troade:

6nos vero navigavimus post dies azymorum a Philippis, et venimus ad eos Troadem in diebus quinque, ubi demorati sumus diebus septem.

7Una autem sabbati cum convenissemus ad frangendum panem, Paulus disputabat cum eis profecturus in crastinum, protraxitque sermonem usque in mediam noctem.

8Erant autem lampades copiosæ in cœnaculo, ubi eramus congregati.

9Sedens autem quidam adolescens nomine Eutychus super fenestram, cum mergeretur somno gravi, disputante diu Paulo, ductus somno cecidit de tertio cœnaculo deorsum, et sublatus est mortuus.

10Ad quem cum descendisset Paulus, incubuit super eum: et complexus dixit: Nolite turbari, anima enim ipsius in ipso est.

11Ascendens autem, frangensque panem, et gustans, satisque allocutus usque in lucem, sic profectus est.

12Adduxerunt autem puerum viventem, et consolati sunt non minime.

13Nos autem ascendentes navem, navigavimus in Asson, inde suscepturi Paulum: sic enim disposuerat ipse per terram iter facturus.

14Cum autem convenisset nos in Asson, assumpto eo, venimus Mitylenen.

15Et inde navigantes, sequenti die venimus contra Chium, et alia applicuimus Samum, et sequenti die venimus Miletum.

16Proposuerat enim Paulus transnavigare Ephesum, ne qua mora illi fieret in Asia. Festinabat enim, si possibile sibi esset, ut diem Pentecostes faceret Jerosolymis.

17A Mileto autem mittens Ephesum, vocavit majores natu ecclesiæ.

18Qui cum venissent ad eum, et simul essent, dixit eis: Vos scitis a prima die qua ingressus sum in Asiam, qualiter vobiscum per omne tempus fuerim,

19serviens Domino cum omni humilitate, et lacrimis, et tentationibus, quæ mihi acciderunt ex insidiis Judæorum:

20quomodo nihil subtraxerim utilium, quominus annuntiarem vobis et docerem vos, publice et per domos,

21testificans Judæis atque gentilibus in Deum pœnitentiam, et fidem in Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum.

22Et nunc ecce alligatus ego spiritu, vado in Jerusalem: quæ in ea ventura sint mihi, ignorans:

23nisi quod Spiritus Sanctus per omnes civitates mihi protestatur, dicens quoniam vincula et tribulationes Jerosolymis me manent.

24Sed nihil horum vereor: nec facio animam meam pretiosiorem quam me, dummodo consummem cursum meum, et ministerium verbi quod accepi a Domino Jesu, testificari Evangelium gratiæ Dei.

25Et nunc ecce ego scio quia amplius non videbitis faciem meam vos omnes, per quos transivi prædicans regnum Dei.

26Quapropter contestor vos hodierna die, quia mundus sum a sanguine omnium.

27Non enim subterfugi, quominus annuntiarem omne consilium Dei vobis.

28Attendite vobis, et universo gregi, in quo vos Spiritus Sanctus posuit episcopos regere ecclesiam Dei, quam acquisivit sanguine suo.

29Ego scio quoniam intrabunt post discessionem meam lupi rapaces in vos, non parcentes gregi.

30Et ex vobisipsis exsurgent viri loquentes perversa, ut abducant discipulos post se.

31Propter quod vigilate, memoria retinentes quoniam per triennium nocte et die non cessavi, cum lacrimis monens unumquemque vestrum.

32Et nunc commendo vos Deo, et verbo gratiæ ipsius, qui potens est ædificare, et dare hæreditatem in sanctificatis omnibus.

33Argentum, et aurum, aut vestem nullius concupivi, sicut

34ipsi scitis: quoniam ad ea quæ mihi opus erant, et his qui mecum sunt, ministraverunt manus istæ.

35Omnia ostendi vobis, quoniam sic laborantes, oportet suscipere infirmos ac meminisse verbi Domini Jesu: quoniam ipse dixit: Beatius est magis dare, quam accipere.

36Et cum hæc dixisset, positis genibus suis oravit cum omnibus illis.

37Magnus autem fletus factus est omnium: et procumbentes super collum Pauli, osculabantur eum,

38dolentes maxime in verbo quod dixerat, quoniam amplius faciem ejus non essent visuri. Et deducebant eum ad navem.

1And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the disciples, and exhorting them, took his leave, and set forward to go into Macedonia.

2And when he had gone over those parts, and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece;

3Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria; so he took a resolution to return through Macedonia.

4And there accompanied him Sopater the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

5These going before, stayed for us at Troas.

6But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the Azymes, and came to them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

7And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow: and he continued his speech until midnight.

8And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where we were assembled.

9And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window, being oppressed with a deep sleep, (as Paul was long preaching,) by occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down, and was taken up dead.

10To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him, and embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.

11Then going up, and breaking bread and tasting, and having talked a long time to them, until daylight, so he departed.

12And they brought the youth alive, and were not a little comforted.

13But we, going aboard the ship, sailed to Assos, being there to take in Paul; for so he had appointed, himself purposing to travel by land.

14And when he had met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.

15And sailing thence, the day following we came over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos; and the day following we came to Miletus.

16For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

17And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of the church.

18And when they were come to him, and were together, he said to them: You know from the first day that I came into Asia, in what manner I have been with you, for all the time,

19Serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews;

20How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house,

21Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

22And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: not knowing the things which shall befall me there:

23Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem.

24But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

25And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

26Wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all men;

27For I have not spared to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

28Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

29I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

30And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

31Therefore watch, keeping in memory, that for three years I ceased not, with tears to admonish every one of you night and day.

32And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up, and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified.

33I have not coveted any man’s silver, gold, or apparel, as

34You yourselves know: for such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.

35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

36And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with them all.

37And there was much weeping among them all; and falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed him,

38Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.