1 Peter 5:1
Elders who [are] among you, I exhort [you], [as] a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory about to be revealed,
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Luke 24:48and you are witnesses of these things.
Acts 1:8but you will receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit on you, and you will be witnesses for Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 2:32God raised up this Jesus, of which we are all witnesses;
Acts 5:30and the God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew, having hanged on a tree;
Acts 11:30which also they did, having sent to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 15:4And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders; they also declared as many things as God did with them;
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 5:1
In which the apostle gives particular directions, first to the elders, how to behave themselves towards their flock ( ver. 1-4 ); then to the younger, to be obedient and humble, and to cast their care upon God, ver. 5-7 . He then exhorts all to sobriety, watchfulness against temptations, and stedfastness in the faith, praying earnestly for them; and so concludes his epistle with a solemn doxology, mutual salutations, and his apostolical benediction. Read the whole commentary →