^{3 Ref} Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

^{4 Ref} Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

^{5 Ref} And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:

^{6 Ref} These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.