Seven Chosen to Serve

6 In those days, as the disciples^(A) were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.^(B)

The Damascus Road

9 Now Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples^(A) of the Lord. He went to the high priest^(B)

⁵² And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.^(A)

²⁰ After the disciples gathered around him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.^(A)

¹⁰ Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks^(A) that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Paul Selects Timothy

16 Paul went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy,^(A) the son of a believing Jewish woman,^(B) but his father was a Greek.

Twelve Disciples of John the Baptist

19 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples^(A)