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And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.
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And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,
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and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,
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and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;
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then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'
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They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon [him], they caught him, and brought [him] to the sanhedrim;
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they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,
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for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'
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and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.