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The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people!
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The Believers Pray
On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
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So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.
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This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
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Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
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This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.
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When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
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The apostles and elders met to consider this question.
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The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers
Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.
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With them they sent the following letter: The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.
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As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
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Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders
We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot.
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From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
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The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present.
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They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.
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Paul’s Trial Before Felix
Five days later the high priest Ananias went down to Caesarea with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor.
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When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him and asked that he be condemned.
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Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
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Widows, Elders and Slaves
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,
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The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
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Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses.
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But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning.
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Appointing Elders Who Love What Is Good
The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
