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Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

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And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.

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Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

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But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.

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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 proselyte of Antioch

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whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.

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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.