Acts 6




geneva@Acts:6:1 @ And (note:)When Satan has assailed the Church on the outside, and with little result and in vain, he assails it on the inside, with civil dissension and strife between themselves: but the apostles take occasion by this to set order in the Church.(:note) in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the From among their own members, who became religious Jews from among the Greeks. Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the In the bestowing of alms according to their need. daily ministration.

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geneva@Acts:6:4 @ And we will giue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministration of the worde.

geneva@Acts:6:5 @ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy Ghost, and Philippe, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a Proselyte of Antiochia,

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geneva@Acts:6:11 @ Then they suborned men, which saide, We haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes against Moses, and God.

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geneva@Acts:6:14 @ For we haue heard him say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the ordinances, which Moses gaue vs.

geneva@Acts:6:15 @ And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, (note:)By this it appears that Steven had an excellent and wholesome countenance, having a quiet and settled mind, a good conscience, and certain conviction that his cause was just: for seeing as he was to speak before the people, God beautified his countenance, so that by the very beholding of him the Jews' minds might be penetrated and amazed.(:note) saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.


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