^{3 Ref} Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

^{4 Ref} But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

^{5 Ref} And the saying pleased the whole 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:

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