The Number of the Disciples Was Multiplied – Scriptures and Quotes

Lesson 29: “The Number of the Disciples Was Multiplied” – Scriptures and Quotes

Nehemiah 3:1-4

Reading 1 – Acts 6:1-7

Reading 2 – 2 Nephi 26:33

Reading 3 - President Howard W. Hunter said: “It is in understanding and accepting [the] universal fatherhood of God that all human beings can best appreciate God’s concern for them and their relationship to each other. This is a message of life and love that strikes squarely against all stifling traditions based on race, language, economic or political standing, educational rank, or cultural background, for we are all of the same spiritual descent. We have a divine pedigree; every person is a spiritual child of God” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1991, 22; or Ensign, Nov. 1991, 18)

Reading 4 – Acts 6:8, 12-15

Reading 5 – Acts 8:5-8

Reading 6 – Acts 8:18-20

Reading 7 – President James E. Faust said: “This greatest of all powers, the priesthood power, is not accessed the way power is used in the world. It cannot be bought or sold. … Worldly power often is employed ruthlessly. However, priesthood power is invoked only through those principles of righteousness by which the priesthood is governed” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1997, 59–60; or Ensign, May 1997, 43).

Reading 8 – Acts 8:26-31, 36-38

1 Corinthians 15:9

Galatians 1:13

Reading 9 – Acts 9:1-9

Reading 10 – Acts 9:10-18

Reading 11 – Then-Elder Ezra Taft Benson said: A man can ask no more important question in his life than that which Paul asked: “… Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” A man can take no greater action than to pursue a course that will bring to him the answer to that question and then to carry out that answer. What would the Lord Jesus Christ have us do? (Ensign, January, 1973)