Acts Chapter 6 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 6:6

whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
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BBE Acts 6:6

These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.
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DARBY Acts 6:6

whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them.
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KJV Acts 6:6

Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
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WEB Acts 6:6

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
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YLT Acts 6:6

whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them `their' hands.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. They did not pray without imposition of hands, nor did they lay hands on them without prayer. So in the sacraments, in confirmation, and ordination, the outward sign or rite is accompanied by prayer for the thing signified. And God's grace is given through the sacrament or rite in answer to the prayer of faith (see Acts 8:15, and the Office for Baptism, the Prayer of Consecration in the Office for Holy Communion, and the Confirmation and Ordination Services). (For the laying on of hands as a mode of conveying a special grace and blessing, see Numbers 27:3; Deuteronomy 34:9; Matthew 19:13-15; Luke 4:40; Acts 8:17; Acts 13:3; 1 Timothy 5:22; Hebrews 6:2.)

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.--This is the first mention of the act in the New Testament. It had had an analogous meaning in the ritual of Israel (Numbers 27:23) in acts of blessing (Genesis 48:13-14) and the transmission of functions. Its primary symbolism would seem to be that of the concentration for the moment of all the spiritual energy of prayer upon him on whom men lay their hands; and so of the bestowal of any office for which spiritual gifts are required. It had been used in the Jewish schools on the admission of a scribe to his office as a teacher. It soon became the customary outward and visible sign of such bestowal (Acts 13:3). Instruction as to what it thus meant entered into the primary teaching of all converts (Hebrews 6:2). It was connected with other acts that pre-supposed the communication of a spiritual gift (1Timothy 5:22). Through well-nigh all changes of polity and dogma and ritual, it has kept its place with Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, among the unchanging witnesses of the Church's universality and permanence, witnessing, as in Confirmation, to the diversity of spiritual gifts, and, as in Ordination, to their connection with every special office and administration in the Church of God.