Acts 20:17–28

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

¹⁷Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called ⁱthe elders of the church to come to him. ¹⁸And when they came to him, he said to them:

^j“You yourselves know ^khow I lived among you the whole time ^jfrom the first day that I set foot in Asia, ^19lserving the Lord ^mwith all humility and with ⁿtears and with trials that happened to me through ^othe plots of the Jews; ²⁰how I ^pdid not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and ^qteaching you in public and from house to house, ^21rtestifying both to Jews and to Greeks of ^srepentance toward God and of ^tfaith in our Lord Jesus Christ.^{3 22}And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained ^uby⁴ the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, ²³except that ^vthe Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that ^wimprisonment and ^xafflictions await me. ²⁴But ^yI do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only ^zI may finish my course and ^athe ministry ^bthat I received from the Lord Jesus, ^cto testify to ^dthe gospel of ^ethe grace of God. ²⁵And now, behold, ^fI know that none of you among whom I have gone about ^gproclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. ²⁶Therefore ^hI testify to you this day that ⁱI am innocent of the blood of all, ²⁷for ^jI did not shrink from declaring to you ^kthe whole counsel of God. ^28lPay careful attention to yourselves and to all ^mthe flock, in which ⁿthe Holy Spirit has made you ^ooverseers, ^pto care for ^qthe church of God,⁵ which he ^robtained ^swith his own blood.⁶