Watch; take heed yourselves, and warn others to take heed.
By the space of three years; from St. Paul’s first coming to Ephesus it was three years current, and now almost complete, Act_19:8,10 20:3.
With tears; a great, and no feigned payov; as Christ wept over Jerusalem, Luk_19:41, so St. Paul over the unbelieving Jews; it went to his heart to think that they could not be saved. See how St. Paul loved souls, and pitied souls.