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—
20 how I did not shrink from proclaiming to you anything that would be profitable, and from teaching you in public and from house to house,
21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks with respect to repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
22 “And now behold, bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,