53 他有负担要长老们看见,神宝爱召会,以及召会在神眼中宝贵、超绝的价值,使长老们和神一样宝爱召会;他劝戒长老说,“圣灵立你们作全群的监督,你们就当为自己谨慎,也为全群谨慎,牧养神的召会,就是祂用自己的血所买来的”—28节。
53 He was burdened for the elders to see the precious love of God for the church and the preciousness, the exceeding worth, of the church in the eyes of God so that they would treasure the church as God did; he admonished the elders to "take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers to shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood" (v. 28).