Acts 20:17

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the congregation.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16(Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid being detained in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, if he possibly could.)

18So when they had come to him he said to them: “You yourselves know, from the first day that I arrived in Asia, how I lived the whole time I was with you,

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Cross References

Acts 11:30which they also did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 15:4Upon arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the congregation and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

Acts 15:23They wrote by their hand the following: “The apostles and the elders and the brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.

Acts 20:28So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood.

Titus 1:5I left you in Crete for this reason, that you should set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every town as I directed you

1 Peter 5:1The elders who are among you I exhort, I, the fellow elder and witness of Christ's sufferings; also the partaker of the glory that is to be revealed:

Matthew Henry on Acts 20:14-17

Paul on a Voyage. 13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot. 14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene. 15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus. 16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it… Read the whole commentary →

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