Acts 20:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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

This is why I left you in Crete, that you might amend what was defective, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you,

Acts 11:30

and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of 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

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

Acts 20:28

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Acts 14:23

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.

3 John 1:1

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

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed.

Acts 16:4

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.

Acts 15:23

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 Cilicia, greeting.

Acts 15:6

The apostles and the elders were gathered 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 declared all that God had done with them.

Acts 18:19

And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself went into the synagogue and argued with the Jews.

Acts 20:15

And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we came to Miletus.