Acts 20:18-35

18When 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,

19serving the Lord with all humility and tears and trials which fell upon me through the plots of the Jewish leaders.

20I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly as well as from house to house,

21testifying 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,

23except that the Ruach ha-Kodesh bears witness to me from city to city, saying that bondage and afflictions await me.

24However, 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.

26Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all.

27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

28“Take care of yourselves and all the flock of which the Ruach ha-Kodesh has made you overseers, to shepherd the community of God—which He obtained with the blood of His own.

29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

30Even from among yourselves will arise men speaking perversions, to draw the disciples away after themselves.

31Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning you with tears.

32“Now I commit you to God and the word of His grace, which is strong to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who have been made holy.

33I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own needs as well as for those with me.

35In all things I have shown you an object lesson—that by hard work one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Yeshua, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”