Acts 20:17-35

¹⁷Wherfore from Myleton he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the congregacion.

¹⁸And when they were come to him he sayde vnto the: Ye knowe from the fyrst daye that I came vnto Asia after what maner I have bene with you at all ceasons

¹⁹servynge the lorde with all humblenes of mynde and with many teares and temptacions which happened vnto me by the layinges awayte of the Ieues

²⁰and how I kept backe no thinge that was profitable: but that I have shewed you and taught you openly and at home in youre houses

²¹witnessinge bothe to the Iewes and also to the Grekes the repentaunce toward God and faith towarde oure Lorde Iesu.

²²And now beholde I goo bounde in the sprete vnto Ierusalem and knowe not what shall come on me there

²³but that the holy goost witnesseth in every cite sayinge: that bondes and trouble abyde me.

²⁴But none of tho thinges move me: nether is my lyfe dere vnto my selfe that I myght fulfill my course with ioye and the ministracion which I have receaved of the Lorde Iesu to testify the gospell of the grace of god.

²⁵And now beholde I am sure that hence forth ye all (thorow who I have gone preachinge the kyngdome of God) shall se my face no moore.

²⁶Wherfore I take you to recorde this same daye that I am pure from the bloude of all men.

²⁷For I have kepte nothinge backe: but have shewed you all the counsell of God.

²⁸Take hede therfore vnto youre selves and to all the flocke wherof the holy goost hath made you oversears to rule the congregacion of God which he hath purchased with his bloud.

²⁹For I am sure of this that after my departynge shall greveous wolves entre in amonge you which will not spare the flocke.

³⁰Moreover of youre awne selves shall men aryse speakinge perverse thinges to drawe disciples after them.

³¹Therfore awake and remember that by the space of .iii. yeares I ceased not to warne every one of you both nyght and daye with teares.

³²And now brethren I comende you to God and to the worde of his grace which is able to bylde further and to geve you an inheritaunce amonge all them which are sanctified.

³³I have desyred no mans silver golde or vesture.

³⁴Ye knowe well that these hondes have ministred vnto my necessities and to them that were with me.

³⁵I have shewed you all thinges how that so laborynge ye ought to receave the weake and to remember the wordes of the Lorde Iesu howe that he sayde: It is more blessed to geve then to receave.