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.
26. And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,
27. for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.
28. Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own blood.
29. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock.
30. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
31. So be vigilant and remember that for three years, night and day, I unceasingly admonished each of you with tears.
32. And now I commend you to God and to that gracious word of his that can build you up and give you the inheritance among all who are consecrated.
33. I have never wanted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
34. You know well that these very hands have served my needs and my companions.
35. In every way I have shown you that by hard work of that sort we must help the weak, and keep in mind the words of the Lord Jesus who himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36. When he had finished speaking he knelt down and prayed with them all.
37. They were all weeping loudly as they threw their arms around Paul and kissed him,
38. for they were deeply distressed that he had said that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.