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Acts 6:7
And the Word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
And the Word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
ACTS 6:7 qeou/ {B} Acts contains examples of both o` lo,goj tou/ qeou/ ( Acts 4:31; Acts 6:2;...
Verse Acts 6:7. _THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED_] By such preachers as the apostles and these deacons, no wonder the doctrine of God increased-became widely diffused and generally known; in consequence of...
AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED - That is, the gospel was more and more successful, or became more mighty and extensive in its influence. An instance of this success is immediately added. AND A GREAT CO...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews (Acts 6:1)._ 2. Stephen; His Ministry and Arrest (Acts 6:8). Another failure is brought before us. The enemy acts again. From without...
ACTS 6:7. No number is stated here. The closing statement is without corroboration. The demand made in Acts 15:5 need not have been made by priests....
THE FIRST OFFICE-BEARERS (Acts 6:1-7)...
In those days, when the number of the disciples was growing, there arose a complaint of the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrew-speaking Jews, in which they alleged that their widows were being ove...
COMPANY. crowd. Greek. _ochlos._ THE FAITH, i.e. in the Name. Compare Acts 3:16....
_And the word of God increased_ i.e. was more widely spread now that the Apostles were freed from secular cares, and left to give themselves unto the ministry of the word. (Cp. for the expression Acts...
Acts 6:1. Murmuring about the distribution of the common fund. Measures for allaying it By the confession of the high-priest himself (Acts 5:28) Jerusalem was now filled with the teaching of the Chri...
ΗΥ̓́ΞΑΝΕΝ, _increased_, i.e. the word of God was more widely published now that the Apostles were freed from secular cares, and left to give themselves unto the ministry of the word. (Cf. for the expr...
Acts 6:1-7. MURMURING ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMMON FUND. MEASURES FOR ALLAYING IT By the confession of the high-priest himself (Acts 5:28) Jerusalem was now filled with the teaching of the Chr...
_THE COMPLAINT WAS HEARD NO MORE ACTS 6:5-7:_ The wisdom of the decision to appoint these seven men was obvious as it was accepted by the church. Seven Grecian men were selected and the apostles sanct...
ΗΫΞΑΝΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΑΎΞΆΝΩ (G837) расти. _Impf._ указывает па постоянный рост. По мере того, как апостолы продолжали проповедовать Слово Божье, оно оказывало все большее влияние и производило...
AND A GREAT COMPANY OF THE PRIESTS— We learn from Ezra 2:36 that 4289 priests returned from the captivity; the number of whom was now probably very much increased. It is certainly wonderful that a gre...
THE INCREASE OF THE WORD OF GOD. Acts 6:7-8. Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obed...
7. The appointment of the seven over the business of daily ministration to the poor was intended to supply an existing deficiency in the organization of the Church. The more efficient organization gav...
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED; AND TH...
36 The fact that this Theudas is not mentioned in profane literature is no reason for doubting the truthfulness and accuracy of the narrative. Josephus, in his Antiquities, hints at many disturbances...
STEPHEN AND THE SEVEN 1-7. The Hebrew-speaking Jews, who were in a majority in the Church of Jerusalem, were inclined to despise and neglect the minority who spoke Greek. In particular, the Greek-spea...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 6 THE *APOSTLES CHOOSE 7 MEN TO HELP THEM, 6:1-7 V1 At this time, the *disciples grew in number. Some *Jews spoke *Greek and other *Jews spoke...
THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED. — The tense indicates gradual and continuous growth. The fact stated implies more than the increase of numbers specified in the next clause. The “word of God” is here the wh...
CHAPTER 11 HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH Acts 4:36; Acts 6:1 THE exact period in the history of the apostolic Church at which we have now arrived is a most interesting one. We stand...
τῶν ἱερέων : the reading Ἰουδαίων is advocated by Klostermann, _Probleme in Aposteltexte_, pp. 13, 14, but not only is the weight of critical evidence overwhelmingly against it, but we can scarcely do...
MEETING MURMURING WITHIN AND PERSECUTION WITHOUT Acts 6:1-15 The Grecians here mentioned were Jews who had lived abroad and spoke Greek. There were as yet no Gentiles in the Church. It was regarded...
The story alternates between the opposition of the outside crowd and the condition of the Church in its own borders. A difficulty arose concerning the distribution of relief which had a national tone....
The Apostles' Solution The apostles said it was not appropriate for them to cease devoting their full energies to the word in order to serve tables. Instead, the apostles directed the members of the c...
(5) And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the (f) faith. (5) A happy result of temptation...
_“And a great multitude of the priests were obedient to the faith.”_ Here we find, much to our encouragement, that amid the sweeping victories of the Pentecostal revival, a large number of the regular...
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
Luke setteth forth again the increasing of the Church, to the end he may the better declare the power of God and his grace in the continual going forward thereof. This was an excellent work of God tha...
Other evils, unhappily, assail the church (Chapter 6). The flesh begins to shew itself, in the midst of the power of the Holy Ghost, the trouble arising from the different circumstances of the discipl...
AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED,.... This stratagem of Satan did not succeed to divide the church, but issued in the better decorum and discipline of it, and in the spread and success of the Gospel; God...
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. Ver. 7. _A great company of the priests_...
_And the word of God increased_ The matter of the complaint, and other hinderances being thus removed, and the apostles more entirely at leisure to attend to the great and peculiar duties of their off...
THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED; was preached, and embraced by greater numbers. When ministers of the gospel are wholly and earnestly devoted to their appropriate duties, and are assisted by brethren in the...
A second time, however, difficulty arises from within Satan's enmity from without was clearly evident. In Ch.5.1-3 Satan had sought to underhandedly get in among the saints, but this had been exposed....
THEN THE WORD OF GOD SPREAD, AND THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES MULTIPLIED GREATLY IN JERUSALEM, AND A GREAT MANY OF THE PRIESTS WERE OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH. 1. Again we see the pattern of church growth....
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and. great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. 'AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED'-The ve...
1-7 Hitherto the disciples had been of one accord; this often had been noticed to their honour; but now they were multiplied, they began to murmur. The word of God was enough to take up all the thoug...
A GREAT COMPANY OF THE PRIESTS; none so violent opposers of the gospel as these were (their interest in all likelihood, heightening their opposition); yet great is truth, especially the Spirit of trut...
7. The appointment of the seven over the business of daily ministration to the poor was intended to supply an existing deficiency in the organization of the Church. The more efficient organization gav...
Acts 6:7 Then G2532 word G3056 God G2316 spread G837 (G5707) and G2532 number G706 disciples G3101 multiplied...
‘And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly, and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.' The seven having been appointed th...
Acts 6:7. AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED; AND THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES MULTIPLIED IN JERUSALEM GREATLY. The dissensions caused by the growing jealousy between the Foreign and the Hebrew-speaking Jew...
_The First Dissension in the Church leads to the Appointment of the Seven Deacons,_ 1-7. There is something very sad in the brief statement contained in the opening verses of this sixth chapter. It te...
INCREASED (ηυξανεν). Imperfect active, kept on growing all the more because the apostles were now relieved from the daily ministration of the food.MULTIPLIED (επληθυνετο). Imperfect passive. The...
Acts 6; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each o...
CONTENTS: The first deacons. Third persecution. Stephen before the council. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, apostles, Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicolas, priests, Mose...
Acts 6:1. _A murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews._ The original word here rendered Grecians is _Hellenists;_ from Hellen, son of Deucalion, king of Thessalia, who was drowned during the inun...
AND A GREAT NUMBER OF PRIESTS. The unity of the group was preserved, and even priests were becoming "fulfilled Jews" in Christ! [Ezra 2:36-39 speaks of 4,289 priests coming back from Babylon. There wo...
_And the Word of God increased._ GOOD EARNESTS OF GREAT SUCCESS I. The means by which this prosperity may be procured. Nothing can avail without-- 1. The operation of the Holy Spirit and the smile...
_And in those days … there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews._ TROUBLE THE LOT OF THE CHURCH The Church on earth has always trouble; if it is not persecuted from without, disorde...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 6:7 A GREAT MANY OF THE PRIESTS became Christians. The lower ranks of the priesthood numbered in the thousands. Many were poor. They may have first been attracted to Christians by th...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 6:1 The Witness beyond Jerusalem. Beginning with Greek-speaking Jewish Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 6:1), the Christian gospel was proclaimed to an ever-widening circle
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 6:1. IN THOSE DAYS should be _in these days,—i.e._, shortly before Stephen’s martyrdom which did not long antedate Saul’s conversion in A.D. 37. Hence the events recorded in th...
EXPOSITION ACTS 6:1 _Now in these _for _and in those, _A.V. (it is not ἐκείναις_, _answering to מהֵהָ מימַיָבַּ, but ταύταις); _multiplying _for _multiplied, _A.V._; Grecian Jews _for _Grecians, _...
Now in those days, when the number of disciples was multiplied (Acts 6:1), We found the Lord adding to the church and now He's multiplying. I love the Lord's mathematics. there arose a murmuring (Ac...
2 Chronicles 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:24; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Timothy 2:9;...
To the faith [τ η π ι σ τ ε ι]. Opinions differ greatly as to whether this is to be taken as meaning faith in Jesus Christ, or faith considered as Christian doctrine - the Gospel; the faith in the ecc...
OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH Acts 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS May we tarry a while to study The Business Side of Church Life. Our text (Acts 6:3) says that there are three requirements: (1) Honest report; (2)...
And the word of God grew — The hinderances being removed....