13 But we went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. For having made arrangements in this way, he himself was intending to travel by land.
14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.
15 And we sailed from there on the next day, and arrived opposite Chios. And on the next day we approached Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.
16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not be having to spend time in Asia. For he was hurrying if it could be possible for him to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
17 And from Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church.
18 And when they came to him, he said to them, “You know from the first day on which I set foot in Asia how I was the whole time with you—
19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews—