Truth is I have been avoiding the first sentence of 1 Peter 5. It overflows into three verses, and it has 10 commas, or similar punctuation, before hitting a period. And each of those 11 sections are rich with something to say.
The first one speaks right to me, especially in the MSV version [1 Peter 5.1, up to the first comma]:
Hey, Marcos, listen to me good, because you are an old guy now,
so you have some particular responsibilities that I want to tell you about,
The ESV is more succinct but less convincing:
So I exhort the elders among you,
Peter reminds us, through comma number two, that he was there when the Italians were hammering nails into Jesus:
as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ,
Is that a rooster I hear crowing?