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)

³² If I fought wild beasts^(A) in Ephesus^(B) with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,