16. For Sha’ul had decided to sail past Ephesos, so that he might lose no time in Asia, for he was hurrying to be at Yerushalayim, if possible, on the Day of the Festival of Weeks.
17. And from Miletos he sent to Ephesos and called for the elders of the assembly.
18. And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, how I was with you all the time,
19. serving the Master with all humility, with many tears and trials which befell me by the plotting of the Yehuḏim,
20. as I kept back no matter that was profitable, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,
21. witnessing to Yehuḏim, and also to Greeks: repentance toward Elohim and belief in our Master יהושע Messiah.
22. “And now see, I go bound in the spirit to Yerushalayim, not knowing what is going to meet me there,
23. except that the Set-apart Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that chains and pressures await me.
24. “But I do not count my life of any value to me, so that I might accomplish my mission with joy, and the service which I received from the Master יהושע, to bear witness to the Good News of the favour of Elohim.