15:36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return 1 and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord 2 to see how they are doing.” 3
20:18 When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I lived 14 the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot 15 in the province of Asia, 16 20:19 serving the Lord with all humility 17 and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots 18 of the Jews. 20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming 19 to you anything that would be helpful, 20 and from teaching you publicly 21 and from house to house, 20:21 testifying 22 to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. 23 20:22 And now, 24 compelled 25 by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem 26 without knowing what will happen to me there, 27 20:23 except 28 that the Holy Spirit warns 29 me in town after town 30 that 31 imprisonment 32 and persecutions 33 are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life 34 worth anything 35 to myself, so that 36 I may finish my task 37 and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news 38 of God’s grace.
20:25 “And now 39 I know that none 40 of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom 41 will see me 42 again. 20:26 Therefore I declare 43 to you today that I am innocent 44 of the blood of you all. 45 20:27 For I did not hold back from 46 announcing 47 to you the whole purpose 48 of God. 20:28 Watch out for 49 yourselves and for all the flock of which 50 the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, 51 to shepherd the church of God 52 that he obtained 53 with the blood of his own Son. 54 20:29 I know that after I am gone 55 fierce wolves 56 will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 20:30 Even from among your own group 57 men 58 will arise, teaching perversions of the truth 59 to draw the disciples away after them. 20:31 Therefore be alert, 60 remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning 61 each one of you with tears. 20:32 And now I entrust 62 you to God and to the message 63 of his grace. This message 64 is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 20:33 I have desired 65 no one’s silver or gold or clothing. 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine 66 provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. 20:35 By all these things, 67 I have shown you that by working in this way we must help 68 the weak, 69 and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” 70