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1. According to Acts 6:1, what was going on in Jerusalem in the community of believers?
Going deeper: What do you learn about widows from the following passages? Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:17-18, 24:17-21, 27:19; Psalm 9:18, 68:5. How might this teaching throughout scripture have impacted these Messianic Jews in the first century?
2. What is the response of the twelve in their statements to the whole community of disciples in the following verses?
Acts 6:2
Acts 6:3
Acts 6:4
3. What was the reaction of the community to these statements according to Acts 6:5?
4. Who did they choose according to Acts 6:5? How is Stephen described in Acts 6:5 and 6:8?
5. What was done with these men according to Acts 6:6?
6. Copy Acts 6:7. Meditate on this, especially how amazing it must have been to see the priests – those whose lives were dedicated to serving God, coming to faith in Yeshua, the Messiah.
7. Who disputed with Stephen according to Acts 6:9?
8. What happened in these disputes according to Acts 6:10?
9. What did these men do as a result according to the following verses?
Acts 6:11
Acts 6:12
Acts 6:13-14
10. What did they observe about Stephen as he sat in the council according to Acts 6:15?
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