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On the next day, 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 and elders of the people,
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When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported everything that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they came up to him and dragged him away, and brought him before the Council.
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And they did this, sending it with Barnabas and Saul to the elders.
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When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
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And after Paul and Barnabas had a heated argument and debate with them, the brothers determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.
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When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.
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The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.
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Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
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and they sent this letter with them: “The apostles and the brothers who are elders, to the brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia who are from the Gentiles: Greetings.
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Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering the ordinances for them to follow which had been determined by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
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Farewell to Ephesus
From Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the church.
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And the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.
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as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.
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They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have put ourselves under an oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
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Paul before Felix
Now after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges against Paul to the governor.
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and when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.