Acts 20:15-20

15Sailing from there, we arrived the next day [at a point] opposite Chios; the following day we crossed over to Samos, and the next day we arrived at Miletus [about 30 miles south of Ephesus].

16Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus so that he would not end up spending time [unnecessarily] in [the province of] Asia (modern Turkey); for he was in a hurry to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

17However, from Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church [to meet him there].

18And when they arrived he said to them: “You know well how I [lived when I] was with you, from the first day that I set foot in Asia [until now],

19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials which came on me because of the plots of the Jews [against me];

20[you know] how I did not shrink back in fear from telling you anything that was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public meetings, and from house to house,