Act 6:1-2 | PNT | STEP | Stephen Seized and Called Before the Sanhedrin SUMMARY OF ACTS 6: The Complaint of the Grecians. The Choice of Seven Deacons. Many Priests Converted. Stephen Preaches Christ with Power. His Controversy with the Jews. The Charge of Blasphemy. Brought Before the Sanhedrin. In those days . About that time. It may have been several years after the planting of the church. The believers had become very numerous in Jerusalem. Arose a murmuring of the Grecians . "The Grecians" were not Greeks, or Gentiles, but foreign Jews, who were born and brought up out of Palestine, and spoke the Greek language. This class of Jews was found in almost every city where Paul preached. See . The Hebrews were Jews of Palestine. They held themselves superior to the foreign Jews, and something of this spirit showed itself in the church. Their widows were neglected . There was "distribution to all men, as every man had need" ( ), not to those who did not need, but to the needy, and the dependent widows would especially need care.

Acts 6:1-2

Stephen Seized and Called Before the Sanhedrin SUMMARY OF ACTS 6: The Complaint of the Grecians. The Choice of Seven Deacons. Many Priests Converted. Stephen Preaches Christ with Power. His Controversy with the Jews. The Charge of Blasphemy. Brought Before the Sanhedrin.

In those days. About that time. It may have been several years after the planting of the church. The believers had become very numerous in Jerusalem.

Arose a murmuring of the Grecians. "The Grecians" were not Greeks, or Gentiles, but foreign Jews, who were born and brought up out of Palestine, and spoke the Greek language. This class of Jews was found in almost every city where Paul preached. See Ac 13:14-16.

The Hebrews were Jews of Palestine. They held themselves superior to the foreign Jews, and something of this spirit showed itself in the church.

Their widows were neglected. There was "distribution to all men, as every man had need" (Ac 2:45 4:35), not to those who did not need, but to the needy, and the dependent widows would especially need care. The twelve. This language shows beyond doubt that Matthias was recognized as an apostle.

Called the multitude. The masses of the church.

And said. That it was not proper that the apostles should give their time to these matters instead of preaching.

And serve tables. To look after the distribution of food.