Acts 20:15-20

15We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.

16For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

17From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

18When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

20You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,