19serving the Lord, as I did, in all humility, amid the tears and trials which fell to my lot through the plots of some of the Jewish leaders.
20I never shrank from telling you anything that could be helpful to you, or from teaching you both in public and in private.
21I earnestly pointed both Jews and Greeks to the repentance that leads to God, and to faith in Jesus, our Lord.
22And now, under spiritual constraint, I am here on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,
23except that in town after town the Holy Spirit plainly declares to me that imprisonment and troubles await me.