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Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.
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But
1they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
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Then
2they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
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And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
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and they
3set up false
4witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against
5this holy place and the law,
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for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth
6will destroy this place and will
7change
8the customs that Moses delivered to us."
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And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face
9was like the face of an angel.