1 Peter 5:1
The elders which are among you, I beseech which am also an elder, and a witnesse of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe reueiled,
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Luke 24:48Nowe ye are witnesses of these things.
Acts 1:8But yee shall receiue power of the holy Ghost, when he shall come on you: and ye shalbe witnesses vnto me both in Hierusalem and in all Iudea, and in Samaria, and vnto the vttermost part of the earth.
Acts 2:32This Iesus hath God raised vp, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 5:30The God of our fathers hath raised vp Iesus, whom ye slewe, and hanged on a tree.
Acts 11:30Which thing they also did, and sent it to the Elders, by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 15:4And when they were come to Hierusalem, they were receiued of the Church, and of the Apostles and Elders, and they declared what things God had done by 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 →