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Now at thistime while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaintarose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the dailyserving of food.
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The statementfoundapproval with the wholecongregation; and they choseStephen, a manfull of faith and of the HolySpirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.
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The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increasegreatly in Jerusalem, and a greatmany of the priests were becomingobedient to the faith.
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But somemen from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including bothCyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and argued with Stephen.