## Their speech pleased ##

Their speech was accepted

## Stephen…and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte from Antioch -  ##

**  These are Greek names, and suggest that the men elected were mostly or entirely from the Grecian Jewish group of believers.

## proselyte ##

a Gentile who converted to the Jewish religion

## placed their hands upon them ##

giving a blessing and imparting responsibility and authority to the work of the seven