19 serving the Lord with all humility and with many tears and trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews.
20 I did not keep from declaring what was beneficial to you, and teaching you publicly and from house to house,
21 testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 “Now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what shall befall me there,
23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
24 But none of these things deter me. Nor do I count my life of value to myself, so that I may joyfully finish my course and the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
25 “Now I know that all you, among whom I went proclaiming the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.