020:013 The rest of us had already gone on board a ship, and now we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there; for so he had arranged, he himself intending to go by land.
020:014 Accordingly, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
020:015 Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios.
On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day
following reached Miletus.
020:016 For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much
time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being
in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.
020:017 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the Elders of the Church to come to him.
020:018 Upon their arrival he said to them, "You Elders well know, from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia, the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,
020:019 serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid
trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews—
020:020 and that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that
was profitable, or from teaching you in public and in your homes,
020:021 and urging upon both Jews and Greeks the necessity of turning
to God and of believing in Jesus our Lord.
020:022 "And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem,
not knowing what will happen to me there,