Atos 6

Enter deacons

1 Now in those days, as the disciples were multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows*Wait a minute! Where did all those foreign widows come from? (There must have been a fair number, to have caused the problem.) Would a widow have traveled alone from Asia to Jerusalem to attend the Passover? Had their husbands died in Jerusalem? I would imagine more probably the latter, since time was passing and there were many thousands of believers; people would be dying, getting married, etc. as usual. were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

6 whom they set before the Apostles; and after praying they laid hands on them.