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\subsection{Acts 6}
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\VS{1} Now in those days when the disciples were multiplying there came to pass [a]
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complaint of the Greeks against the Jews that their widows were being
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overlooked in the daily service.
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\VS{2} So the twelve having called upon the multitude of disciples, they said:
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It is not pleasing for us having forsaken the word of God [inorder] to be serving tables.
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\VS{3} So examine, brothers, seven men
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from [among] you having witness born to them [that they are] full of [the] spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this need.
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\VS{4} But we will persist in prayer and in the service of the word.
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\VS{5} And [this] word pleased before all the multitude,
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and they chose Stephen, [a] man full of faith and of [the] Holy Spirit, and Phillip
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and Prochoros and Nicanora and Timona and Parmena and Nicolaos proselyte
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[of] Antiochea,
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\VS{6} whom they stood before the apostles, and having prayed
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they placed on them their hands.
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\VS{7} And the word of God increased, and the number of disciples in
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Jerusalem multiplied greatly, and [a] great crowd of priests were obeying in
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faith.
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\VS{8} Now Stephen full of grace and power was doing great wonders
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and signs among the people.
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\VS{9} So there arose certain men from the
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synagogue being called [the synagogue] of the Liberines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and
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of them of Cilicia and of Asia, arguing with Stephen,
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\VS{10} and they were
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not able to resist the wisdom of the spirit with\footnote{or ``from''} which
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he spoke.
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\VS{11} Then they [secretly] instigated men saying that: We have heard him
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speaking slanderous words against Moses and God,
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\VS{12} and they set in
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motion the people and the elders and the scribes, and having arrived they
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seized him and brought [him] to the council,
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\VS{13} and the false witnesses
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stood saying: This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place
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and [against our] law.
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\VS{14} For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene
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will demolish this place and will change the customs which Moses delivered
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to us.
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\VS{15} And all those sitting in the council, having looked intently
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to him, saw his face as [the] face of [an] angel.
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