“You yourselves know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,^* ¹⁹serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, enduring the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews. ²⁰I did not shrink from doing anything helpful, proclaiming the message to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house,^* ²¹as I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.ⁿ^* ²²And now, as a captive to the Spirit,^o I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,^* ²³except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.^* ²⁴But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.^*

²⁵“And now I know that none of you, among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom, will ever see my face again.^* ²⁶Therefore I declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,^* ²⁷for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.^* ²⁸Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God^p that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.^q^*

Read in Logos

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

nOther ancient authorities add Christ
oOr And now, bound in the spirit
pOther ancient authorities read of the Lord
qOr with his own blood; Gk with the blood of his Own

Cross references

*Acts 11:30
*Acts 18:19
*v 27
*Acts 2:38; 18:5; 24:24
*v 16
*Acts 21:4, 11
*Acts 21:13; 2 Cor 4:16; Gal 1:1; Titus 1:3
*v 38
*Acts 18:6; 2 Cor 7:2
*Acts 13:36
*1 Cor 12:28; 1 Tim 4:16; 1 Pet 1:19