18 When they were with him, he said to them, “You know how I spent all my time with you from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
19 I humbly served the Lord, often with tears in my eyes. I served the Lord during the difficult times I went through when the Jews plotted against me.
20 I didn’t avoid telling you anything that would help you, and I didn’t avoid teaching you publicly and from house to house.
21 I warned Jews and Greeks to change the way they think and act and to believe in our Lord Jesus.
22 “I am determined to go to Jerusalem now. I don’t know what will happen to me there.
23 However, the Holy Spirit warns me in every city that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.
24 But I don’t place any value on my own life. I want to finish the race I’m running. I want to carry out the mission I received from the Lord Jesus—the mission of testifying to the Good News of God’s kindness.