Acts 6:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore, 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. ”

Acts 6:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Look ye out - Select, or choose. As this was a matter pertaining to their own pecuniary affairs, it was proper that “they” should be permitted to choose such men as they could confide in. By this...
Acts 6:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(3) Wherefore, 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. (3) In choosing deacons (and much more in choosi...
Acts 6:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Choice of the Seven. A division shows itself in the Church. The Hellenists ( mg.), the members who spoke Greek, having been brought up in Greek-speaking countries, murmur against the Hebrews, thos...
Acts 6:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

look ye out. App-133. among . from. App-104. seven. App-10. men. Greek. aner. App-123. of honest report. Literally witnessed to, or attested. Greek. martureo. Compare Hebrews 11:2 ;...
Acts 6:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Therefore, brethren, look out. Now we see to what end deacons were made. The word itself is indeed general, yet is it properly taken for those which are stewards for the poor. Whereby it...
Acts 6:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wherefore, 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. Wherefore - look ye out among you seven men - Choose...
Acts 6:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Of honest report,— Of good credit. Heylin.
Acts 6:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Wherefore, 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. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out - ye, the mu...
Acts 6:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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-...
Acts 6:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Seven men of honest report. — The number may have had its origin in the general reverence for the number Seven among the Jews. Possibly, however, the suggestion may have come from the Libertini ,...
Acts 6:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 13 PRIMITIVE DISSENSIONS AND APOSTOLIC PRECAUTIONS. Acts 6:1-4 The sixth chapter of the Acts, and the election of the Seven, mark a distinct advance in the career of the early Church....
Acts 6:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 rega...
Acts 6:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Acts 6:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (3) Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seve...
Acts 6:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore brethren look ye out among you ,.... Or "choose out among you", as the Syriac version adds, and as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions render it; which shows that this sort of officers, deaco...
Acts 6:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wherefore, 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. Ver. 3. Full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom ] i.e....
Acts 6:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then the twelve For such was now again their number, Matthias having supplied the place of Judas; called the multitude of the disciples unto them Not the rest of the one hundred and twenty merely...
Acts 6:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Acts 6:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Appointment of Deacons. 1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Gr...
Acts 6:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Look ye out among you seven men; as carefully and circumspectly as ye would in any cases of your own concerns. Of honest report; a good direction, that obliges to this day, in all elections of an...
Acts 6:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Look you out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.” So they put forward the practical solution that...
Acts 6:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Acts 6:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 6:1-3 On the Office of the Diaconate I. The origin of the office. (1) We are introduced here to a class of people called Grecians. They were proselytes to the Jewish worship, and Jews born a...
Acts 6:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 i...
Acts 6:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

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, diso...
Acts 6:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 G...
Acts 6:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Choosing of the First Deacons. The matter laid before the congregation:
Acts 6:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:8 ; 1 Corinthians 16:3 ; 1 John 3:14-16 ; 1 Timothy 3:10 ; 1 Timothy 3:7 ; 1 Timothy 3:8 ; 1 Timothy 3:8-15 ; 1 Timothy 5:10 ; 2 Corinthians 8:19-21 ; 3 John 1:12 ; Acts 1...
Acts 6:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Obedient to the Faith Acts 6:1-14 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 r...
Acts 6:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Of good report — That there may be no room to suspect them of partiality or injustice. Full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom — For it is not a light matter to dispense even the temporal goods of the Ch...

Acts 6:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Acts 6:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 6:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 6:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 6:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 6:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 6:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 6:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 6:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 6:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 6:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 6:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 6:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 6:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 6:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 6:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 6:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 6:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 6:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 6:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 6:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 6:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 6:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes