'Elders' in the Bible
On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied, "Rulers of the people and elders,
When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.
They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.
They did so, sending their financial aid to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.
When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.
When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.
Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.
Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to send men chosen from among them, Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.
They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings!
As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.
From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.
The next day Paul went in with us to see James, and all the elders were there.
as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to make arrests there and bring the prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to partake of anything until we have killed Paul.
After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.
When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.