Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 6:1
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 Acts 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" (Acts 2:45 4:35), not to those who did not need,
but to the needy, and the dependent widows would especially need care.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 12:20
Acts 6:1
Acts 11:26
Philippians 1:1
1 Timothy 3:1
1 Timothy 3:8
1 Timothy 5:3
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