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19 [You know that] I served the Lord with humility, with tears and with trials that I experienced as the result of plots by the Jews.
20 [You know] how I held back nothing in declaring to you whatever was profitable, and taught you in public [meetings] and in your homes.
21 [You know how] I testified to both Jews and Greeks [i.e., Gentiles], that they must repent [i.e., change their attitudes and behavior] toward God, and have faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
22 "And now, look, I am going to Jerusalem, impelled by the Holy Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me [when I get] there,
23 except that the Holy Spirit reveals to me in every city [I visit] that chains and persecutions await me there.
24 But I do not consider my life to be of value, as precious to me, [when compared to the importance of] accomplishing my task and the mission I received from the Lord Jesus to declare the good news of God's unearned favor [through Christ].
25 Now look, I know that none of you, among whom I traveled on preaching missions, will ever see my face again.
26 Therefore, I [must] declare to you today that I am not responsible for what happens to any of you.
27 For I held nothing back in declaring to you the entire message of God.
28 So, pay close attention to your [own] lives, and to all [members] of the flock [i.e., the congregation] of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers [i.e., elders, shepherds or pastors]. Provide [spiritual] food for the church of the Lord which He purchased by [shedding] His own blood.
29 [Because] I know that after I am gone [from here] there will be vicious wolves [i.e., ravaging false teachers] who will come in among you, and they will not spare the flock [i.e., the congregation].
30 [Indeed, even] from among your own selves [i.e., the body of elders there in Ephesus] some men will arise and, by speaking false things, they will lead away the disciples, [influencing them] to follow them.
31 So, be very watchful, and remember that for three years I never stopped warning every one of you [about such matters] both night and day with tears [in my eyes].