Acts 20:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, asking the elders of the church to meet him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ However, from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church [to come to him there].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus calling for the church’s elders to meet him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Then, sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called those greater by birth in the church.

Acts 20:17 Cross References

Titus 1:5

I left you behind in Crete for this reason, so that you should put in order what remained to be done and should appoint elders in every town, as I directed you:

Acts 11:30

this they did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching,

James 5:14

Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Acts 14:23

And after they had appointed elders for them in each church, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.

3 John 1:1

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

2 John 1:1

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

1 Peter 5:1

Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you

Acts 16:4

As they went from town to town, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.

Acts 15:23

with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers and sisters of gentile origin in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.

Acts 15:6

The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter.

Acts 15:4

When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

Acts 18:19

When they reached Ephesus, he left them there, but first he himself went into the synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.

Acts 20:15

We sailed from there, and on the following day we arrived opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we came to Miletus.