Acts 14:23
And having appointed elders for them in every congregation, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24And after passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
Cross References
Mark 3:14And he appointed twelve men, so that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
Acts 1:22having begun from the immersion of John to the day that he was taken up from us, for one of these to become a witness with us of his resurrection.
Acts 13:1Now there were some men from the congregation that was in Antioch, prophets and teachers, including Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen reared with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 15:4And after arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported as many things as God did with them.
Acts 15:23after writing by their hand these things:The apostles, and the elders, and the brothers, to those down in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, to the brothers of the Gentiles, greeting.
Acts 20:32And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.
Matthew Henry on Acts 14:20-28
Paul Stoned at Lystra; The Disciples Exhorted and Encouraged; Paul and Barnabas Ordain Elders. 19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. 20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. 21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to… Read the whole commentary →