The word Deacon

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Nov 7, 1854

Is translated from diakonos. This word is variously translated in the New Testament, as follows:

Matt. xx, 26. let him be your minister; xxii, 13. Then said the king to the servants, xxiii, 11. greatest among you shall be your servant. Mark ix, 35. be last of all, and servant of all. x, 43. among you shall be your minister. John ii, 5. His mother saith unto the servants, 9. the servants which drew the water xii, 26. there shall also my servant be: Rom. xiii, 4. For he is the minister of God to thee — he is the minister of God, a revenger xv, 8. a minister of the circumcision for xvi, 1. Phebe our sister, which is a servant 1 Cor. iii, 5. ministers by whom ye believed, 2 Cor. iii, 6. also hath made us able ministers vi, 4. ourselves as the ministers of God, xi, 15. if his ministers also he transformed as the ministers of righteousness; 23. Are they ministers of Christ? Gal. ii, 17. is therefore Christ the minister of sin? Eph. iii, 7. Whereof I was made a minister, vi, 21. beloved brother and faithful minister Phil. i, 1. with the bishops and deacons; Col. i, 7. for you a faithful minister of Christ;

I Paul am made a minister;
whereof I am made a minister,

iv, 7. a faithful minister and fellow-servant 1 Thess. iii, 2. Timotheus, our brother, and minister of 1 Tim. iii, 8. Likewise must the deacons be grave, 12. deacons be the husbands of one wife, iv, 6. thou shalt be a good minister of