| 1 | Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. |
| 2 | And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables. |
| 3 | Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. |
| 4 | But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word. |
| 5 | And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch; |
| 6 | whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them. |
| 7 | And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. |
| 8 | And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people. |
| 9 | But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. |
| 10 | And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake. |
| 11 | Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God. |
| 12 | And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council, |
| 13 | and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law: |
| 14 | for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us. |
| 15 | And all that sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. |
