¹Now 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.

²So 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.

³“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.

⁴“But we will ^adevote ourselves to prayer and to the ¹ministry of the word.”

⁵The 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.

⁶And these they brought before the apostles; and after ^apraying, they ^blaid their hands on them.

⁷^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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Footnotes

1Lit in these days
2Jews who adopted the Gr language and much of Gr culture thr acculturation
1Lit multitude
1Or service
1Lit multitude
2Gr Nikolaos
3I.e. a Gentile convert to Judaism

Cross references

a Acts 11:26
b Acts 2:47; 6:7
c Acts 9:29; 11:20
d 2 Cor 11:22; Phil 3:5
e Acts 9:39, 41; 1 Tim 5:3
f Acts 4:35; 11:29
a John 21:23; Acts 1:15
b Acts 2:4
a Acts 1:14
a Acts 6:8ff; 11:19; 22:20
b Acts 6:3; 11:24
c Acts 8:5ff; 21:8
d Matt 23:15
e Acts 11:19
a Acts 1:24
b Num 8:10; 27:18; Deut 34:9; Mark 5:23; Acts 8:17ff; 9:17; 13:3; 19:6; 1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6; Heb 6:2
a Acts 12:24; 19:20
b Acts 6:1
c Acts 13:8; 14:22; Gal 1:23; 6:10; Jude 3, 20