Acts 6:1
And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 26:12When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:
Job 31:16If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
Psalms 110:3With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.
Isaiah 27:6When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
Matthew 23:13But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
Matthew Henry on Acts 6:1
In this chapter we have, I. The discontent that was among the disciples about the distribution of the public charity, ver. 1 . II. The election and ordination of seven men, who should take care of that matter, and ease the apostles of the burden, ver. 2-6 . III. The increase of the church, by the addition of many to it, ver. 7 . IV. A particular account of Stephen, one of the seven. 1. His great activity for Christ, ver. 8 . 2. The opposition he met with from the enemies of Christianity, and his disputes with… Read the whole commentary →