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Verse Acts 6:7. _THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED_] By such preachers as the
apostles and these deacons, no wonder the doctrine of God
increased-became widely diffused and generally known; in consequence
of...
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AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED - That is, the gospel was more and more
successful, or became more mighty and extensive in its influence. An
instance of this success is immediately added.
AND A GREAT CO...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The Murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews (Acts 6:1)._
2. Stephen; His Ministry and Arrest (Acts 6:8).
Another failure is brought before us. The enemy acts again. From
without...
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ACTS 6:7. No number is stated here. The closing statement is without
corroboration. The demand made in Acts 15:5 need not have been made by
priests....
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In those days, when the number of the disciples was growing, there
arose a complaint of the Greek-speaking Jews against the
Hebrew-speaking Jews, in which they alleged that their widows were
being ove...
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THE FIRST OFFICE-BEARERS (Acts 6:1-7)...
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COMPANY. crowd. Greek. _ochlos._
THE FAITH, i.e. in the Name. Compare Acts 3:16....
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_And the word of God increased_ i.e. was more widely spread now that
the Apostles were freed from secular cares, and left to give
themselves unto the ministry of the word. (Cp. for the expression Acts...
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Acts 6:1. Murmuring about the distribution of the common fund.
Measures for allaying it
By the confession of the high-priest himself (Acts 5:28) Jerusalem
was now filled with the teaching of the Chri...
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ΗΥ̓́ΞΑΝΕΝ, _increased_, i.e. the word of God was more widely
published now that the Apostles were freed from secular cares, and
left to give themselves unto the ministry of the word. (Cf. for the
expr...
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Acts 6:1-7. MURMURING ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMMON FUND.
MEASURES FOR ALLAYING IT
By the confession of the high-priest himself (Acts 5:28) Jerusalem was
now filled with the teaching of the Chr...
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_THE COMPLAINT WAS HEARD NO MORE ACTS 6:5-7:_ The wisdom of the
decision to appoint these seven men was obvious as it was accepted by
the church. Seven Grecian men were selected and the apostles
sanct...
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ΗΫΞΑΝΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΑΎΞΆΝΩ (G837) расти.
_Impf._ указывает па постоянный рост. По
мере того, как апостолы продолжали
проповедовать Слово Божье, оно
оказывало все большее влияние и
производило...
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AND A GREAT COMPANY OF THE PRIESTS— We learn from Ezra 2:36 that
4289 priests returned from the captivity; the number of whom was now
probably very much increased. It is certainly wonderful that a gre...
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THE INCREASE OF THE WORD OF GOD. Acts 6:7-8.
Acts 6:7
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples
multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the
priests were obed...
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7. The appointment of the seven over the business of daily
ministration to the poor was intended to supply an existing deficiency
in the organization of the Church. The more efficient organization
gav...
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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.
AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED; AND TH...
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36 The fact that this Theudas is not mentioned in profane literature
is no reason for doubting the truthfulness and accuracy of the
narrative. Josephus, in his Antiquities, hints at many disturbances...
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STEPHEN AND THE SEVEN
1-7. The Hebrew-speaking Jews, who were in a majority in the Church of
Jerusalem, were inclined to despise and neglect the minority who spoke
Greek. In particular, the Greek-spea...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 6
THE *APOSTLES CHOOSE 7 MEN TO HELP THEM, 6:1-7
V1 At this time, the *disciples grew in number. Some *Jews spoke
*Greek and other *Jews spoke...
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THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED. — The tense indicates gradual and
continuous growth. The fact stated implies more than the increase of
numbers specified in the next clause. The “word of God” is here
the wh...
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CHAPTER 11
HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH
Acts 4:36; Acts 6:1
THE exact period in the history of the apostolic Church at which we
have now arrived is a most interesting one. We stand...
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τῶν ἱερέων : the reading Ἰουδαίων is advocated by
Klostermann, _Probleme in Aposteltexte_, pp. 13, 14, but not only is
the weight of critical evidence overwhelmingly against it, but we can
scarcely do...
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MEETING MURMURING WITHIN AND PERSECUTION WITHOUT
Acts 6:1-15
The Grecians here mentioned were Jews who had lived abroad and spoke
Greek. There were as yet no Gentiles in the Church. It was regarded...
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The story alternates between the opposition of the outside crowd and
the condition of the Church in its own borders. A difficulty arose
concerning the distribution of relief which had a national tone....
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The Apostles' Solution
The apostles said it was not appropriate for them to cease devoting
their full energies to the word in order to serve tables. Instead, the
apostles directed the members of the c...
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(5) 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 (f) faith.
(5) A happy result of temptation...
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_“And a great multitude of the priests were obedient to the
faith.”_ Here we find, much to our encouragement, that amid the
sweeping victories of the Pentecostal revival, a large number of the
regular...
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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...
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First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among
the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ
Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
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Luke setteth forth again the increasing of the Church, to the end he
may the better declare the power of God and his grace in the continual
going forward thereof. This was an excellent work of God tha...
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Other evils, unhappily, assail the church (Chapter 6). The flesh
begins to shew itself, in the midst of the power of the Holy Ghost,
the trouble arising from the different circumstances of the discipl...
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AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED,.... This stratagem of Satan did not
succeed to divide the church, but issued in the better decorum and
discipline of it, and in the spread and success of the Gospel; God...
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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.
Ver. 7. _A great company of the priests_...
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_And the word of God increased_ The matter of the complaint, and other
hinderances being thus removed, and the apostles more entirely at
leisure to attend to the great and peculiar duties of their off...
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THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED; was preached, and embraced by greater
numbers. When ministers of the gospel are wholly and earnestly devoted
to their appropriate duties, and are assisted by brethren in the...
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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....
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The election:...
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A second time, however, difficulty arises from within Satan's enmity
from without was clearly evident. In Ch.5.1-3 Satan had sought to
underhandedly get in among the saints, but this had been exposed....
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THEN THE WORD OF GOD SPREAD, AND THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES
MULTIPLIED GREATLY IN JERUSALEM, AND A GREAT MANY OF THE PRIESTS WERE
OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH.
1. Again we see the pattern of church growth....
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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples
multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and. great company of the priests
were obedient to the faith.
'AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED'-The ve...
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1-7 Hitherto the disciples had been of one accord; this often had
been noticed to their honour; but now they were multiplied, they began
to murmur. The word of God was enough to take up all the thoug...
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A GREAT COMPANY OF THE PRIESTS; none so violent opposers of the gospel
as these were (their interest in all likelihood, heightening their
opposition); yet great is truth, especially the Spirit of trut...
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7. The appointment of the seven over the business of daily
ministration to the poor was intended to supply an existing deficiency
in the organization of the Church. The more efficient organization
gav...
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Acts 6:7 Then G2532 word G3056 God G2316 spread G837 (G5707) and G2532
number G706 disciples G3101 multiplied...
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‘And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples
multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly, and a great company of the
priests were obedient to the faith.'
The seven having been appointed th...
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Acts 6:7. AND THE WORD OF GOD INCREASED; AND THE NUMBER OF THE
DISCIPLES MULTIPLIED IN JERUSALEM GREATLY. The dissensions caused by
the growing jealousy between the Foreign and the Hebrew-speaking Jew...
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_The First Dissension in the Church leads to the Appointment of the
Seven Deacons,_ 1-7.
There is something very sad in the brief statement contained in the
opening verses of this sixth chapter. It te...
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INCREASED
(ηυξανεν). Imperfect active, kept on growing all the more
because the apostles were now relieved from the daily ministration of
the food.MULTIPLIED
(επληθυνετο). Imperfect passive. The...
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Acts 6; Acts 7
Stephen.
From the history of Stephen we learn:
I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are
mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each
o...
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CONTENTS: The first deacons. Third persecution. Stephen before the
council.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, apostles, Stephen, Philip,
Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicolas, priests, Mose...
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Acts 6:1. _A murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews._ The
original word here rendered Grecians is _Hellenists;_ from Hellen, son
of Deucalion, king of Thessalia, who was drowned during the inun...
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AND A GREAT NUMBER OF PRIESTS. The unity of the group was preserved,
and even priests were becoming "fulfilled Jews" in Christ! [Ezra
2:36-39 speaks of 4,289 priests coming back from Babylon. There wo...
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_And in those days … there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against
the Hebrews._
TROUBLE THE LOT OF THE CHURCH
The Church on earth has always trouble; if it is not persecuted from
without, disorde...
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_And the Word of God increased._
GOOD EARNESTS OF GREAT SUCCESS
I. The means by which this prosperity may be procured. Nothing can
avail without--
1. The operation of the Holy Spirit and the smile...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 6:7 A GREAT MANY OF THE PRIESTS became Christians.
The lower ranks of the priesthood numbered in the thousands. Many were
poor. They may have first been attracted to Christians by th...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 6:1 The Witness beyond Jerusalem. Beginning with
Greek-speaking Jewish Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 6:1), the
Christian gospel was proclaimed to an ever-widening circle
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 6:1. IN THOSE DAYS should be _in these days,—i.e._, shortly
before Stephen’s martyrdom which did not long antedate Saul’s
conversion in A.D. 37. Hence the events recorded in th...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 6:1
_Now in these _for _and in those, _A.V. (it is not
ἐκείναις_, _answering to מהֵהָ מימַיָבַּ,
but ταύταις); _multiplying _for _multiplied, _A.V._; Grecian
Jews _for _Grecians, _...
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Now in those days, when the number of disciples was multiplied (Acts
6:1),
We found the Lord adding to the church and now He's multiplying. I
love the Lord's mathematics.
there arose a murmuring (Ac...
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2 Chronicles 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:24; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Timothy
2:9;...
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To the faith [τ η π ι σ τ ε ι]. Opinions differ greatly as to
whether this is to be taken as meaning faith in Jesus Christ, or faith
considered as Christian doctrine - the Gospel; the faith in the
ecc...
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OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH
Acts 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
May we tarry a while to study The Business Side of Church Life.
Our text (Acts 6:3) says that there are three requirements: (1) Honest
report; (2)...
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And the word of God grew — The hinderances being removed....