When the number of the disciples was multiplying (πληθυνοντων των μαθητων). Genitive absolute of πληθυνω, old verb from πληθος, fu…

CHAPTER 6

In those days, and so forth. The first part of this chapter contains an account of the appointment of deacons. I…

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied. Better, were being multiplied, indicating an…

This verse is not only one of the most important in Acts, it is also one of the most complicated and discu ed verses in the entire book. What one c…

Luke declares here on what occasion, for what purpose, and also with what rite, deacons were first made. He says, when a murmuring arose among the …

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was
multiplied

From one hundred…

Until now, the disciples had been of one accord; this had often been noticed to their honour. But now that they had multiplied, they began to murmu…