◄ Acts 6:6 ►
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Good News Translation
The group presented them to the apostles, who prayed and placed their hands on them.

New Revised Standard Version
They had these men stand before the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

Contemporary English Version
These men were brought to the apostles. Then the apostles prayed and placed their hands on the men to show they had been chosen to do this work.

New American Bible
They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed hands upon them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

when.

Acts 1:24 And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

Acts 8:17 Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy Ghost.

Acts 9:17 And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Acts 13:3 Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

1 Timothy 5:22 Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste.

2 Timothy 1:6 For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee by the imposition of my hands.

Context
The Choosing of the Seven
…5And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor, and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch. 6These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed hands upon them. 7And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.…
Cross References
Numbers 8:10
And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon them:

Numbers 27:18
And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.

Deuteronomy 34:9
And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Mark 5:23
And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.

Acts 1:24
And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

Acts 8:17
Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy Ghost.

Acts 9:12
(And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands upon him, that he might receive his sight.)

Acts 9:17
And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Acts 13:3
Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

Acts 19:6
And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them: and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

1 Timothy 4:14
Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

2 Timothy 1:6
For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee by the imposition of my hands.

Hebrews 6:2
Of the doctrine of baptisms and imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Acts 6:5
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