17. From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

18. 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,

19. serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

20. how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

21. testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.