16. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he might not spend much time in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Shavuot.
17. From Miletus, dispatching someone to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the community.
18. When they came to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I behaved among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,
19. serving the Lord with all humility and tears and trials which fell upon me through the plots of the Jewish leaders.
20. I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly as well as from house to house,
21. testifying to both Jewish and Greek people repentance to God and trust in our Lord Yeshua.
22. “And now, look, bound by the Ruach, I am going to Jerusalem—not knowing what will happen to me there,
23. except that the Ruach ha-Kodesh bears witness to me from city to city, saying that bondage and afflictions await me.
24. However, I don’t consider my life of any value, except that I might finish my course and the office I received from the Lord Yeshua, to declare the Good News of the grace of God.
25. “Now, look! I know that none of you, among whom I have gone proclaiming the kingdom, will ever see my face again.
26. Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all.