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title: Acts 6
slug: kjv-nt/acts-6
createdAt: 2024-09-04T03:44:44.687Z
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**1 **And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. **2**Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples *unto them*, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. **3 **Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. **4 **But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. **5 **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 of Antioch: **6 **Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid *their* hands on them.

**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.

**8 **And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. **9 **Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called *the synagogue* of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. **10 **And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. **11 **Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and *against* God. **12 **And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon *him*, and caught him, and brought *him* to the council, **13 **And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: **14 **For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. **15 **And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.