15. Sailing from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios; the next day we crossed over to Samos, and the day after that we came to Miletus.
16. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he might not spend much time in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Shavuot.
17. From Miletus, dispatching someone to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the community.
18. When 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,
19. serving the Lord with all humility and tears and trials which fell upon me through the plots of the Jewish leaders.
20. I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly as well as from house to house,
21. testifying to both Jewish and Greek people repentance to God and trust in our Lord Yeshua.