Acts 21:18

Conflict Over The Gentile Mission

¹⁷ And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us with joy. ¹⁸ And the next day Paul went in with us to James: and all the elders were present. ¹⁹ And when he had saluted them, he gave a particular narrative of the things which God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.

Elders of the Church

James

Jerusalem

Paul

Acts 11:30

Which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 15:13

And after they had done speaking, James rose up and said, Brethren, hearken unto me.

Matthew 10:2

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew;

Acts 12:17

But he made a sign to them with his hand to be silent, and related to them, how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go, tell these things to James and to the other brethren. And he departed and went to another place.

Acts 15:2

A dissension therefore arising, and Paul and Barnabas having no small dispute with them, it was resolved that Paul and Barnabas, and some others, should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem about this question.

Acts 15:6

So the apostles and elders were assembled together to consider about this matter.

Acts 15:23

and they wrote by their hand, as follows, The apostles and elders and brethren here to the Gentile brethren which are in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, send greeting.

Acts 20:17

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

Galatians 1:19

But I saw no other of the apostles, except James the brother of our Lord.

Galatians 2:9

and knowing the grace which was given to me; James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars of the church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

James 1:1

James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in dispersion sendeth greeting.