In this chapter, Paul leaves for Macedonia with seven others including Timothy (Lystra), Sopater (Berea), Aristarchus and Secundas (Thessalonika), Gaias (Derbe), Tichus and Trophimus (Asia). They traveled from Macedonia (Northern Greece) to Troas (Western Turkey) by boat after the Passover. 

Paul gathered them in an upper room and spoke to them before he left. He prolonged his speech until midnight. A young man named Eutychus fell asleep and toppled from a third story window and was taken for dead. Paul went down and healed him and continued talking through the night. (As a lecturer I have put a student or two asleep, but never killed one).

They traveled to the next town of Assos, and then by boat to several islands along the coast. He planned to skip Ephesus trying to get to Jerusalem by Pentecost. From the town of Miletus he sent for the Elders of Ephesus. He spoke to them of his three years of service to them, suffering and success and warned them to protect the flock from men speaking twisted things. He reminded them to help the weak, and quoted Jesus, “It is more blessed to give than receive.” With a tearful goodbye, he departed to Jerusalem. 

Paul’s missions included field training young people from all the different ethnic groups he that he encountered. He also established elders he in each region. He was not interested in building his own fame or wealth, but spreading the Word, apprenticing, encouraging and expanding. Several of the books of the New Testament are letters to these churches and leaders that he established during these trips.