Why not twelve but seven in Acts 6?
Acts 6:1-4: 1 And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, 2 and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables; 3 look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity, 4 and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.` When I read these verses my understanding was, when church grow, the twelve (I believed refer to the twelve Jesus disciples) are not pleasing they have no time for the word of God because busy minister at tables. They need another seven men to do the job. Then, something caught my sight in the subsequent verses Acts 6:5 and the word widows. Why widows? If the twelve can left the word of G...