Hechos 6:4

4 Entonces nosotros, los apóstoles, podremos dedicar nuestro tiempo a la oración y a enseñar la palabra».

Hechos 6:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 6:4

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer
Both in private for themselves, and the church; and in the houses and families of the saints, with the sick and distressed;. and in public, in the temple, or in whatsoever place they met for public worship:

and to the ministry of the word;
the preaching of the Gospel, to which prayer is absolutely prerequisite, and with which it is always to be joined. These two, prayer and preaching, are the principal employment of a Gospel minister, and are what he ought to be concerned in, not only now and then, but what he should give himself up unto wholly, that his profiting might appear; and what he should be continually exercised and employed in: and if parting with that branch of the ministerial function, the care of the secular affairs of the church, and of the poor of it, was necessary in the apostles, that they might be more at leisure to attend to the more important and useful duties of prayer and preaching; it therefore seems necessary that those who are called to labour in the word and doctrine, if possible, should be exempt from all worldly business and employment; that of the ministry being sufficient to engross all a man's time and thoughts.

Hechos 6:4 In-Context

2 De manera que los Doce convocaron a todos los creyentes a una reunión. Dijeron: «Nosotros, los apóstoles, deberíamos ocupar nuestro tiempo en enseñar la palabra de Dios, y no en dirigir la distribución de alimento.

3 Por lo tanto, hermanos, escojan a siete hombres que sean muy respetados, que estén llenos del Espíritu y de sabiduría. A ellos les daremos esa responsabilidad.

4 Entonces nosotros, los apóstoles, podremos dedicar nuestro tiempo a la oración y a enseñar la palabra».

5 A todos les gustó la idea y eligieron a Esteban (un hombre lleno de fe y del Espíritu Santo), a Felipe, a Prócoro, a Nicanor, a Timón, a Parmenas y a Nicolás de Antioquía (quien anteriormente se había convertido a la fe judía).

6 Estos siete hombres fueron presentados ante los apóstoles, quienes oraron por ellos y les impusieron las manos.