First Reading: Acts 20:17-27

¹⁷ And from Mile’tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews;
²⁰ how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
²¹ testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
²² And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what shall befall me there;
²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
²⁴ But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
²⁵ And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom will see my face no more.
²⁶ Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you,
²⁷ for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.