Acts 6:8-15

Stephen Arrested

8 Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

9 But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen ({as it was called}), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up [and] disputed with Stephen.

10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"

12 And they incited the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came up [and] seized him and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin.

13 And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law!

14 For we have heard him saying that this Nazarene Jesus will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

15 And [as they] looked intently at him, all those who were sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his face [was] like the face of an angel.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "called"
• [b]. A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
• [c]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the participle ("disputed") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style
• [d]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("came up") has been translated as a finite verb
• [e]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [f]. Or "council"
• [g]. Some manuscripts have "this holy place"
• [h]. *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("looked intently") which is understood as temporal
• [i]. Or "council"