Acts 6:7-15

7 ¹The word of God kept on spreading; and ²the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to ³the faith.

8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great ⁴wonders and signs among the people.

9 But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both ⁵Cyrenians and ⁶Alexandrians, and some from ⁷Cilicia and ⁸Asia, rose up and argued with Stephen.

10 But they were unable * to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

12 And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they ⁹came up to him and dragged him away and brought him before ¹⁰the Council.

13 They put forward ¹¹false witnesses who said, "This man incessantly * speaks against this ¹²holy place and the Law;

14 for we have heard him say that ¹³this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter ¹⁴the customs which Moses handed down to us."

15 And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the ¹⁵Council saw his face like the face of an angel.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 12:24; Acts 19:20
• 2. Acts 6:1
• 3. Acts 13:8; Acts 14:22; Galatians 1:23; Galatians 6:10; Jude 3, 20
• 4. John 4:48
• 5. Matthew 27:32; Acts 2:10
• 6. Acts 18:24
• 7. Acts 15:23, 41; Acts 21:39; Acts 22:3; Acts 23:34; Acts 27:5; Galatians 1:21
• 8. Acts 16:6; Acts 19:10; Acts 21:27; Acts 24:18
• 9. Luke 20:1; Acts 4:1
• 10. Matthew 5:22
• 11. Matthew 26:59-61; Acts 7:58
• 12. Matthew 24:15; Acts 21:28; Acts 25:8
• 13. Matthew 26:61
• 14. Acts 15:1; Acts 21:21; Acts 26:3; Acts 28:17
• 15. Matthew 5:22

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "attesting miracles"
• [b]. I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor
• [c]. Lit "into"
• [d]. Or "Sanhedrin"
• [e]. Or "Sanhedrin"