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

6:6 laid their hands. This evidently was the first time the practice of laying on of hands was used in the early church. The act was symbolic only, as the seven were already filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 6:3).

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