20 ¹ WHEN THE DISTURBANCE had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said good-bye and set out on his journey to Macedonia. 20 ² He travelled through those parts of the country, often speaking words of encouragement to the Christians there, and so came into Greece. 20 ³ When he had spent three months there and was on the point of embarking for Syria, a plot was laid against him by the Jews, so he decided to return by way of Macedonia. 20 ⁴ He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus, from Beroea, the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, Gaius the Doberian Some witnesses read: Derbaean and Timothy, and the Asians Tychicus and Trophimus. 20 ⁵ These went ahead and waited for us at Troas; 20 ⁶ we ourselves set sail from Philippi after the Passover season, Literally: after the days of Unleavened Bread. and in five days reached them at Troas, where we spent a week.