Acts 6:7
“The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.”
What does Acts 6:7 mean?
In the weeks and months after Jesus' resurrection, the Jerusalem church was growing so fast that it became impossible to ignore. This verse captures that explosive momentum: not just a few more people joining each Sunday, but waves of new believers, including surprisingly many priests who had been trained to see Jesus as a threat to their way of life. What makes this detail striking is that priests were among the last group you'd expect to convert. These were the religious establishment, the ones with everything invested in the temple system. Yet "a great company" of them became followers anyway, which tells us the disciples' message was undeniably powerful and the risen Jesus was genuinely transforming lives. The growth wasn't hype or manipulation, it was people from every corner of Jerusalem's religious world encountering something real.