Acts 20:17

⁵I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—

³⁰which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

¹⁷Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

²³When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.

¹⁴Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

²⁸Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and^[+] God which he purchased with his own blood.

⁴When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

⁶The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

¹The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

⁴As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.