Hellenist versus Hebrew: Conflict in the Church
Hellenist versus Hebrew: Conflict in the Church "Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, - It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables." Acts 6:1-2 (ESV) Who were the disciples? DISCIPLES: mathetes (a learner or pupil); from manthano or matheo (to learn, in any way) Mathetes (disciples or brothers) appears in the Book of Acts only once before this (Acts 1:15), yet it ends up being one of the most frequently used descriptions of Christians in the Book of Acts, with 30 occurrences. It can be found 268 times in all of the New Testament. The word translated as disciple or brother, with four other words found in the Book of Acts, appears to be the most frequent descriptors of "Christian": MATHETES (a learne...