Acts 6:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. ”

Acts 6:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the word of God increased - That is, the gospel was more and more successful, or became more mighty and extensive in its influence. An instance of this success is immediately added. And a...
Acts 6:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(5) And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the (f) faith. (5) A happy result of temptatio...
Acts 6:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:7 . No number is stated here. The closing statement is without corroboration. The demand made in Acts 15:5 need not have been made by priests.
Acts 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

company . crowd. Greek. ochlos. the faith, i.e. in the Name. Compare Acts 3:16 .
Acts 6:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Luke setteth forth again the increasing of the Church, to the end he may the better declare the power of God and his grace in the continual going forward thereof. This was an excellent work of...
Acts 6:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. The word of God increased - By such prea...
Acts 6:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And a great company of the priests— We learn from Ezra 2:36-39 that 4289 priests returned from the captivity; the number of whom was now probably very much increased. It is certainly wonderful th...
Acts 6:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. And the word of God increased; a...
Acts 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The word of God increased. — The tense indicates gradual and continuous growth. The fact stated implies more than the increase of numbers specified in the next clause. The “word of God” is here the...
Acts 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the word of God increased ,.... This stratagem of Satan did not succeed to divide the church, but issued in the better decorum and discipline of it, and in the spread and success of the Gospel;...
Acts 6:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. Ver. 7. A great company of the pries...
Acts 6:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the word of God increased The matter of the complaint, and other hinderances being thus removed, and the apostles more entirely at leisure to attend to the great and peculiar duties of their of...
Acts 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A great company of the priests; none so violent opposers of the gospel as these were (their interest in all likelihood, heightening their opposition); yet great is truth, especially the Spirit of t...
Acts 6:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly, and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.' The seven having been appointed t...
Acts 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of...
Acts 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - 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 6:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The election:
Acts 6:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 29:34 ; 2 Chronicles 30:24 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; 2 Timothy 2:9 ; Acts 12:24 ; Acts 19:20 ; Acts 21:20 ; Colossians 1:6 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; Hebrews 5:9 ; John 12:42 ; Luke 2:34...
Acts 6:7 - 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 6:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the word of God grew — The hinderances being removed.

Acts 6:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Acts 6:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 6:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 6:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 6:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 6:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 6:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 6:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 6:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 6:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 6:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 6:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 6:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 6:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 6:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 6:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 6:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 6:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 6:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 6:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 6:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 6:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 6:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 6:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes