Acts 6:8-15

Stephen Is Seized

8 And Stephen, full of grace and ¹power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

9 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.

10 But ²they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

11 Then ³they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

12 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,

13 and they ⁴set up false ⁵witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against ⁶this holy place and the law,

14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth ⁷will destroy this place and will ⁸change ⁹the customs that Moses delivered to us."

15 And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face ¹⁰was like the face of an angel.

Cross References

• 1. See Acts 1:8
• 2. See Luke 21:14, 15
• 3. [1 Kings 21:10, 13; Matthew 26:59, 60]
• 4. ver. 11
• 5. Acts 7:58
• 6. [Acts 21:28; Acts 25:8; Matthew 24:15]
• 7. [Daniel 9:26; Matthew 26:61]
• 8. [Matthew 5:17]
• 9. Acts 15:1; Acts 21:21
• 10. [Judges 13:6; Ecclesiastes 8:1]