in advising Titus about the qualifications for bishops or elders in the churches of Crete. Luke’s account of Paul’s meeting with the Ephesian elders at Miletus also uses the terms to identify the same office (Acts 20:17–38). Initially the Ephesian leaders are called “elders” (v. 17), but in Acts 20:28 Paul is reported to have said, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with