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22 And now beholde I goo bounde in the sprete vnto Ierusalem and knowe not what shall come on me there 23 but that the holy goost witnesseth in every cite sayinge: yt bondes and trouble abyde me. 24 But none of tho thinges move me: nether is my lyfe dere vnto my selfe that I myght fulfill my course wt ioye and the ministracio which I have receaved of ye Lorde Iesu to testify the gospell of ye grace of god. 25 And now beholde I am sure yt hence forth ye all (thorow who I have gone preachinge ye kyngdome of God) shall se my face no moore. 26 Wherfore I take you to recorde this same daye that I am pure fro the bloude of all me. 27 For I have kepte nothinge backe: but have shewed you all the counsell of God. 28 Take 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. 29 For I am sure of this that after my departynge shall greveous wolves entre in amonge you which will not spare the flocke. 30 Moreover of youre awne selves shall men aryse speakinge perverse thinges to drawe disciples after the. 31 Therfore 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. 32 And 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 amoge all them which are sanctified. 33 I have desyred no mas silver golde or vesture. 34 Ye knowe well yt these hondes have ministred vnto my necessities and to them that were wt me. 35 I 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. 36 When he had thus spoken he kneled doune and prayed with them all. 37 And they wept all aboundantly and fell on Pauls necke and kissed him 38 sorowinge most of all for the wordes which he spake that they shuld se his face no moore. And they acompanyed him vnto the shyppe. Acts 20:22-38, Tyndale Bible of 1526. Public domain.
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