# For this purpose I left you in Crete, that you might set "This is the reason I left you in Crete: I wanted you to set" # I left you in Crete "I told you to stay in Crete" # set in order things not yet complete "finish arranging things that needed to be done" # ordain elders "appoint elders" # elders In the early Christian churches, Christian elders gave spiritual leadership to the assemblies of believers.