Acts 20:16-20

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to lose time in Asia; for he was hurrying, if it might be possible for him to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. Farewell to Ephesus

From Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the church.

And when they came to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was beneficial, and teaching you publicly and from house to house,