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Deacons Chosen To Serve
We find this early church faced with a big problem, and it was over money (sound familiar?) (v. 1). There were two groups; the Hellenistic Jews (Greek speaking) and the Hebrew Jews (Aramaic speaking). They charged that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution o …

Stephen Summoned before Synagogue Leaders
Up to this point, the sign gifts seem to have been administered only by the apostles, but now we find Stephen, a newly appointed deacon, also demonstrating these extraordinary powers. Apparently his ministry was primarily among the Hellenistic Jews, referred to here as the “ …