“Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.”
King James Version (KJV)
20:24 Nor do I count my life precious - It adds great force to this and all the other passages of Scripture, in which the apostles express their contempt of the world, that they were not uttered by persons like Seneca and Antoninus, who talked elegantly of despising the world in the full affluence of all its enjoyments; but by men who daily underwent the greatest calamities, and exposed their lives in proof of their assertions.
20:25 Ye shall see my face no more - He wisely inserts this, that what follows might make the deeper impression.
20:27 For I have not shunned - Otherwise if any had perished, their blood would have been on his head.
20:28 Take heed therefore - I now devolve my care upon you; first to yourselves; then to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers - For no man, or number of men upon earth, can constitute an overseer, bishop, or any other Christian minister. To do this is the peculiar work of the Holy Ghost: to feed the Church of God - That is, the believing, loving, holy children of God; which he hath purchased - How precious is it then in his sight! with his own blood - For it is the blood of the only begotten Son of God, #1John 1:7|.
Ac 20:26,27 Pure from the blood of all [men]. Not responsible, if they are lost, for he had declared "the whole counsel of God" (Revised Version).