Acts 20:17–28

¹⁷But from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he called over to him the elders of the assembly. ¹⁸And when they were come to him, he said to them, Ye know how I was with you all the time from the first day that I arrived in Asia, ¹⁹serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews; ²⁰how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce it to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house, ²¹testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. ²²And now, behold, bound in my spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it; ²³only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me. ²⁴But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God. ²⁵And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. ²⁶Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all, ²⁷for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God. ²⁸Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.