Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Grecians
Hebrews
Bible References
When
Acts 6:7
And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was greatly multiplied; and a great multitude of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were immersed, and on that day there were added to them about three thou sand souls.
Acts 4:4
But many of those who heard the word, believed: and the number of the men was about five thousand.
Acts 5:14
And believers in the Lord were more and more added to them, multitudes both of men and women;)
There
1 Corinthians 10:10
Nor do you murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
James 4:5
Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No.
James 5:9
Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
Grecians
Acts 9:29
he conversed and reasoned with the Hellenists; but they under took to kill him.
Acts 11:20
But some of them were men of Cyprus and Gyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Hebrews
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they of the posterity of Abraham? So am I.
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as it respects law, a Pharisee;
Their
Acts 9:39
Then Peter arose, and went with them; and when he had come, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
Matthew 23:14
Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.
James 1:27
Religion, pure and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.