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,
23. except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town after town, saying that bonds and persecutions await me.
24. But I consider my life as worth nothing to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
25. “And now behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom, will see my face no more.
26. Therefore I testify to you on this very day that I am guiltless of the blood of all of you,
27. for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole purpose of God.
28. Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own Son.
29. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
30. And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking perversions of the truth in order to draw away the disciples after them.
31. Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.