In this Portion, Luke turns away from the conflict between the Sanhedrin and the church leaders to introduce two groups within the Jerusalem church. They were the “Grecian” Jews (Greek, Hellenistai, or “Hellenists”) and “Hebraic” Jews. As the church in Jerusalem grew larger, more and more Hebraic and Grecian Jews came into the church, and some of the prejudices between the two groups carried over into the church. As the case of Ananias and Sapphira showed, all was not well with everyone in the church. One of the difficulties that the Greek-speaking Jews felt was that they were being discriminated against in the Jerusalem church. The problem here specifically was that the Hellenistic widows of the Jerusalem church were “being overlooked in the daily distribution of food”.
Speaker: Benjamin Mathew
Scripture: Acts 6:1-7
Notes: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtZn-btopJYtr0jcoFhYygxTx4Cs?e=FfDwKg
