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

“ Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. ”

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

And when they had prayed - Invoking in this manner the blessing of God to attend them in the discharge of the duties of their office. They laid their hands ... - Among the Jews it was customa...
Acts 6:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(4) Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they (e) laid [their] hands on them. (4) The ancient Church, with the laying on of hands, as it were consecrated to the Lord those wh...
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

before . in the presence of apostles. App-189. prayed. App-131. laid, &c. Compare Numbers 27:18-23 .
Acts 6:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. Having prayed, they laid their hands upon them. Laying on of hands was a solemn sign of consecration under the law. To this end do the apostles now lay their hands upon the deacons, that...
Acts 6:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. And when they had prayed - Instead of και, and, the Codex Bezae reads οἱτινες, who, referring the act of...
Acts 6:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. Whom they set before the apostles: and when they (the apostles) had prayed, they laid their hands o...
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. — This is the first mention of the act in the New Testament. It had had an analogous meaning in the ritual of Israel ( Numbers 27:23 ) in acts o...
Acts 6:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 11 HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH Acts 4:36-37 ; Acts 6:1-6 THE exact period in the history of the apostolic Church at which we have now arrived is a most interesting o...
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - 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 6:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

Whom they set before the apostles ,.... They did not barely nominate and propose them to them, but they brought them into their presence, and placed them before them, as the persons whom they had ch...
Acts 6:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. Ver. 6. They laid their hands ] So putting the blessing upon them. A very ancient rite, borrowed from...
Acts 6:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the saying pleased the multitude Who had been called together upon this occasion; and After some little deliberation upon the choice that was to be made; they chose seven It seems all Helle...
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - 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 6:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When they had prayed; prayer is the salt which seasoneth and sanctifieth all things. They laid their hands on them; a rite used in the church of old, 1. In their sacrifices, Exodus 29:15 ;...
Acts 6:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a prosel...
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 6:1-6 Hellenist and Hebrew From the very day of Pentecost, the Jerusalem congregation had embraced a number of Hellenists, or foreign-trained Jews, though we have no means of knowing what pr...
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - 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 6:6 - 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 6:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The election:
Acts 6:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:14 ; 1 Timothy 5:22 ; 2 Timothy 1:6 ; Acts 1:24 ; Acts 13:3 ; Acts 8:17 ; Acts 9:17
Acts 6:6 - 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 6:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 6:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

Acts 6:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acts 6:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

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

Acts 6:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

Acts 6:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 6:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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

Acts 6:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 6:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Acts 6:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 6:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary