17. Now from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church.
18. And when they came to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time —
19. serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews —
20. and that I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching it to you in public and from house to house.
21. I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
22. “And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,
23. except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.