Acts
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Acts 6:6
“Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.”
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Acts 6:6 Context
3Wherefore, 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. 4But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 5And 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: 6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. 7And 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. 8And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9Then 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.
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Translation Details for Acts 6:6
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
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Wesley's Notes for Acts 6:6
6:4 We will constantly attend to prayer, and to the ministry of the word - This is doubtless the proper business of a Christian bishop: to speak to God in prayer; to men in preaching his word, as an ambassador for Christ.
6:5 And they chose - It seems seven Hellenists, as their names show. And Nicholas a proselyte - To whom the proselytes would the more readily apply.
6:7 And the word of God grew - The hinderances being removed.
People's Bible Notes for Acts 6:6
Ac 6:6 Whom they set before the apostles. There has been some discussion whether these seven were deacons, and whether this is the origin of the deacon's office in the church. They are never called deacons, but the Greek word "diakoneo", rendered "to serve" (Ac 6:2), is the verb form of which the Greek word "diakonos", "deacon", is the noun. The usual view is that they were deacons. And when they had prayed, they laid [their] hands on them. The scriptural method of inducting into office. The prayer and imposition of hands was an appeal to God to give the necessary gifts rather than their impartation. See Nu 27:23 Ge 48:13.
Whom they set before the Apostles: and when they had praied, they layd their hands on them.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
And these they brought before the apostles; and after praying, they laid their hands on them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
- American Standard Version (1901)
These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.
- Basic English Bible
whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them.
- Darby Bible
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
- Webster's Bible
These men they brought to the Apostles, and, after prayer, they laid their hands upon them.
- Weymouth Bible
whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
- World English Bible
Thei ordeyneden these bifor the siyt of apostlis, and thei preyeden, and leiden hoondis on hem.
- Wycliffe Bible
whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them [their] hands.
- Youngs Literal Bible