12. And they took the boy away alive and were immeasurably comforted.
13. We went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos where we were to take Paul on board, as he had arranged, since he was going overland.
14. When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene.
15. We sailed away from there on the next day and reached a point off Chios, and a day later we reached Samos, and on the following day we arrived at Miletus.
16. Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus in order not to lose time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if at all possible, for the day of Pentecost.
17. From Miletus he had the presbyters of the church at Ephesus summoned.
18. When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.
19. I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews,
20. and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes.
21. I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
22. But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know,
23. except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me.
24. Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace.
25. “But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again.