Acts 20:17–28

¹⁷Now from Miletus he sent to ^aEphesus and called to him ^bthe elders of the church.

¹⁸And when they had come to him, he said to them,

“You yourselves know, ^afrom the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me ¹through ^athe plots of the Jews;

²⁰how I ^adid not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and ¹from house to house,

²¹solemnly ^atestifying to both Jews and Greeks about ^brepentance toward God and ^cfaith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

²²“And now, behold, bound by the ¹Spirit, ^aI am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

²³except that ^athe Holy Spirit solemnly ^btestifies to me in every city, saying that ^cchains and afflictions await me.

²⁴“But ^aI do not make my life of any account nor dear to myself, so that I may ^bfinish my course and ^cthe ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to ^dtestify solemnly of the gospel of ^ethe grace of God.

²⁵“And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about ^apreaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.

²⁶“Therefore, I ¹testify to you this day that ^aI am ²innocent of the blood of all.

²⁷“For I ^adid not shrink from declaring to you the whole ^bpurpose of God.

²⁸“Be on guard for yourselves and for all ^athe flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you ¹overseers, to shepherd ^bthe church of God which ^cHe ²purchased ³with His own blood.