I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
who am also an elder: The word elder (sumpresbuteros), in this use, occurs only here, referring to a "fellow elder." Notice that he does not refer to himself as pope (which he was not) or even as the apostle that he was. He bases his words to elders on the fact that he is an elder.