Acts 6

¹ Now in those days when the disciples were multiplying there came to pass [a] complaint of the Greeks against the Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily service. ² So the twelve having called upon the multitude of disciples, they said: It is not pleasing for us having forsaken the word of God [inorder] to be serving tables. ³ So examine, brothers, seven men from [among] you having witness born to them [that they are] full of [the] spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this need. ⁴ But we will persist in prayer and in the service of the word. ⁵ And [this] word pleased before all the multitude, and they chose Stephen, [a] man full of faith and of [the] Holy Spirit, and Phillip and Prochoros and Nicanora and Timona and Parmena and Nicolaos proselyte [of] Antiochea, ⁶ whom they stood before the apostles, and having prayed they placed on them their hands.

⁷ And the word of God increased, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem multiplied greatly, and [a] great crowd of priests were obeying in faith. ⁸ Now Stephen full of grace and power was doing great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ So there arose certain men from the synagogue being called [the synagogue] of the Liberines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, arguing with Stephen, ¹⁰ and they were not able to resist the wisdom of the spirit with¹ which he spoke. ¹¹ Then they [secretly] instigated men saying that: We have heard him speaking slanderous words against Moses and God, ¹² and they set in motion the people and the elders and the scribes, and having arrived they seized him and brought [him] to the council, ¹³ and the false witnesses stood saying: This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place and [against our] law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will demolish this place and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us. ¹⁵ And all those sitting in the council, having looked intently to him, saw his face as [the] face of [an] angel.

¹or "from" version 3.85.
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