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Acts 6 General Notes

Structure and Formatting

Acts [6:7](../06/07.md) is a summary statement that Luke uses to mark the end of the first major part of the book.

Religious and Cultural Concepts in This Chapter

The distribution to the widows

The believers in Jerusalem gave food every day to women whose husbands had died. All of them had been raised as Jews, but some of them spoke Hebrew and had lived mostly in Judea, while others spoke Greek and may have lived in Gentile areas. Those who gave out the food gave it to the Hebrew-speaking widows but not equally to the Greek-speaking widows. To please God, the church leaders appointed Greek-speaking men to make sure the Greek-speaking widows received their share of the food. One of these Greek-speaking men was Stephen.

Translation Issues in This Chapter

“His face was like the face of an angel”