And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
And he spake boldy in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians - the Hellenistic or Greek-speaking Jews (see the note at Acts 6:1). He seems to have specially directed his addresses to this class as being himself one of them, and, in the days of his ignorance, notorious for his virulence against the new Faith.
But they went about to slay him. Thus was he made to feel, throughout his whole Christian course, what he himself had made others so cruelly to feel-the cost of discipleship.