20:18 When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived ¹  the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot ²  in the province of Asia, ³  20:19 serving the Lord with all humility ⁴  and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots ⁵  of the Jews. 20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ⁶  to you anything that would be helpful, ⁷  and from teaching you publicly ⁸  and from house to house, 20:21 testifying ⁹  to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ¹⁰  20:22 And now, ¹¹  compelled ¹²  by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem ¹³  without knowing what will happen to me there, ¹⁴  20:23 except ¹⁵  that the Holy Spirit warns ¹⁶  me in town after town ¹⁷  that ¹⁸  imprisonment ¹⁹  and persecutions ²⁰  are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life ²¹  worth anything ²²  to myself, so that ²³  I may finish my task ²⁴  and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news ²⁵  of God’s grace.

20:25 “And now ²⁶  I know that none ²⁷  of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom ²⁸  will see me ²⁹  again. 20:26 Therefore I declare ³⁰  to you today that I am innocent ³¹  of the blood of you all. ³²  20:27 For I did not hold back from ³³  announcing ³⁴  to you the whole purpose ³⁵  of God. 20:28 Watch out for ³⁶  yourselves and for all the flock of which ³⁷  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, ³⁸  to shepherd the church of God ³⁹  that he obtained ⁴⁰  with the blood of his own Son. ⁴¹  20:29 I know that after I am gone ⁴²  fierce wolves ⁴³  will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 20:30 Even from among your own group ⁴⁴  men ⁴⁵  will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ⁴⁶  to draw the disciples away after them. 20:31 Therefore be alert, ⁴⁷  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁴⁸  each one of you with tears. 20:32 And now I entrust ⁴⁹  you to God and to the message ⁵⁰  of his grace. This message ⁵¹  is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 20:33 I have desired ⁵²  no one’s silver or gold or clothing. 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine ⁵³  provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. 20:35 By all these things, ⁵⁴  I have shown you that by working in this way we must help ⁵⁵  the weak, ⁵⁶  and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ⁵⁷ 

20:36 When ⁵⁸  he had said these things, he knelt down ⁵⁹  with them all and prayed. 20:37 They all began to weep loudly, ⁶⁰  and hugged ⁶¹  Paul and kissed him, ⁶²  20:38 especially saddened ⁶³  by what ⁶⁴  he had said, that they were not going to see him ⁶⁵  again. Then they accompanied ⁶⁶  him to the ship.