¹⁷And from Miletus he sent word^* to Ephesus and^* summoned the elders of the church. ¹⁸And when they came to him, he said to them, “You know from the first day on which I set foot in Asia^e how I was the whole time with you—¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews—²⁰how I did not shrink from proclaiming to you anything that would be profitable, and from teaching you in public and from house to house, ²¹testifying both to Jews and to Greeks with respect to repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

²²“And now behold, bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,^f ²³except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town after town, saying that bonds and persecutions await me. ²⁴But I consider my^* life as worth nothing^g to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁵“And now behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom, will see my face no more. ²⁶Therefore I testify to you on this very day that I am guiltless of the blood of all of you,^* ²⁷for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole purpose of God. ²⁸Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own Son.^h

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Acts 20:24: But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Footnotes

*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sent”) has been translated as a finite verb
eA reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
fLiterally “in it”
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
gOr “not a single word”; literally “not any thing”
*The words “of you” are not in the Greek text but are implied
hOr “through his own blood”; the Greek construction can be taken either way, with “Son” implied if the meaning is “through the blood of his own”