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On the morrow their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,
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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,
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The Believers Pray for Boldness
When they were released they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
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and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
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And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
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And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
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When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
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The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
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The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsab′bas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,
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with the following letter: “The brethren, both the apostles and the elders, to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cili′cia, greeting.
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As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
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Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders
And from Mile′tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
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On the following day Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
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as the high priest and the whole council of elders bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brethren, and I journeyed to Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.
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And they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.
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Paul before Felix at Caesarea
And after five days the high priest Anani′as came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertul′lus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul;
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and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews gave information about him, asking for sentence against him.
