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Acts 6

Choosing of the Seven

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Now  1at this time while the  adisciples were  bincreasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the  2 cHellenistic Jews against the native  dHebrews, because their  ewidows were being overlooked in  fthe daily serving of food.

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So the twelve summoned the  1congregation of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

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"Therefore,  abrethren, select from among you seven men of good reputation,  bfull of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task.

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"But we will  adevote ourselves to prayer and to the  1ministry of the word."

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The statement found approval with the whole  1congregation; and they chose  aStephen, a man  bfull of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and  cPhilip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and  2Nicolas, a  3 dproselyte from  eAntioch.

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And these they brought before the apostles; and after  apraying, they  blaid their hands on them.

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 aThe word of God kept on spreading; and  bthe number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to  cthe faith.

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And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great  awonders and  1signs among the people.

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But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both  aCyrenians and  bAlexandrians, and some from  cCilicia and  1 dAsia, rose up and argued with Stephen.

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But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

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Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

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And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they  acame up to him and dragged him away and brought him  1before  bthe  2Council.

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They put forward  afalse witnesses who said, "This man incessantly speaks against this  bholy place and the Law;

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for we have heard him say that  athis Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter  bthe customs which Moses handed down to us."

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And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the  1 aCouncil saw his face like the face of an angel.



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