20 After all the commotion had died down, Paul sent for the believers, and after greeting and encouraging them, he left Ephesus to go to Macedonia.[fn] 2 As he travelled through the districts, he challenged the people there with a lot of messages, until he eventually arrived in Greece. 3 He’d been there about three months when he heard about a plot by some Jews to waylay him as he boarded a ship to return to Syria, so instead he decided to return through Macedonia 4 with Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia Minor, and Timothy all accompanying him. 5 They went ahead and waited for us[fn] at Troas. 6 So we sailed out from Philippi after the Festival of Flat Bread. We arrived and meet the others there at Troas after a five-day trip, and then stayed on there for seven days.