35 In every way I showed you that working hard like this it is necessary to help the weak, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ "*

36 When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 37 Then they all wept freely, and falling on Paul’s neck kept kissing him, 38 sorrowing most of all because of the word that he had spoken, that they would see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.