Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
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Deuteronomy 26:12When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Psalms 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Isaiah 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
Ezekiel 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Amongst you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Matthew 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretence you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
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 →