Acts 20:13-23

13 But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.

15 And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and^[a] the day after that we went to Miletus.

16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening ¹to be at Jerusalem, if possible, ²on the day of Pentecost.

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

17 Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called ³the elders of the church to come to him.

18 And when they came to him, he said to them: ⁴"You yourselves know ⁵how I lived among you the whole time ⁶from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

19 ⁷serving the Lord ⁸with all humility and with ⁹tears and with trials that happened to me through ¹⁰the plots of the Jews;

20 how I ¹¹did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and ¹²teaching you in public and from house to house,

21 ¹³testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of ¹⁴repentance toward God and of ¹⁵faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

22 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained ¹⁶by^[b] the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,

23 except that ¹⁷the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that ¹⁸imprisonment and ¹⁹afflictions await me.