Acts 6:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

saying. Greek. logos, as in Acts 6:2.

Stephen. Greek. Stephanos =. crown. All the names are Greek. These are called the seven deacons, but the word diakonos is not used in the Acts. See App-190. Besides Stephen, Philip is the only one of whom anything is recorded (Acts 8:5; Acts 21:8).

faith. App-150.

proselyte. See note on Matthew 23:15.

Antioch. In Syria.

Acts 6:5

5 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 of Antioch: