And in thosedays, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, therearose a murmuring of the Greciansagainst the Hebrews, becausetheirwidowswereneglected in the dailyministration.
And the sayingpleased the wholemultitude: and theychoseStephen, a man full of faith and of the HolyGhost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciplesmultiplied in Jerusalemgreatly; and a greatcompany of the priestswereobedient to the faith.
Thentherearosecertain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputingwithStephen.