¹⁸ When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you,^(A) from the first day I came into the province of Asia.^{(B) 19} I served the Lord with great humility and with tears^(C) and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents.^{(D) 20} You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything^(E) that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.