Chapter 20, verses 16-20
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For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia
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From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
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When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
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serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews
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how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
