6whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.


In Context

3 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.|

5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 6:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid [their] hands on them.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:6They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:6These they set before the apostles; and they praying, imposed hands upon them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:6whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:6whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them their hands.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.