Acts 6 - Acts 6

Acts 6 is the sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the ordination of the first seven deacons and the work of one of them, Stephen. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.

Text

The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 15 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:

• Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
• Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
• Papyrus 8 (4th century; extant: verses 1-6, 8-15)
• Codex Bezae (c. AD 400)
• Codex Alexandrinus (c. AD 400-440)
• Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (c. AD 450; lacunae: verses 8)
• Codex Laudianus (c. AD 550)

Structure

This chapter can be grouped:

• Acts 6:1-7 = Seven Chosen to Serve
• Acts 6:8-15 = Stephen Accused of Blasphemy

Verse 5

And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,

Verse 14

[False witnesses from the Synagogue of the Freedmen said]: "for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us."