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1 And in those days, when the num­ber of the dis­ci­ples was mul­ti­plied, there arose a mur­mur­ing of the Gre­cians against the He­brews, be­cause their wid­ows were ne­glect­ed in the dai­ly min­is­tra­tion. 2 Then the twelve called the mul­ti­tude of the dis­ci­ples un­to them, and said, It is not rea­son that we should leave the word of God, and serve ta­bles. 3 Where­fore, brethren, look ye out among you sev­en men of hon­est re­port, full of the Holy Ghost and wis­dom, whom we may ap­point over this busi­ness. 4 But we will give our­selves con­tin­u­al­ly to prayer, and to the min­istry of the word. 5 And the say­ing pleased the whole mul­ti­tude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Pro­cho­rus, and Nicanor, and Ti­m­on, and Par­me­nas, and Nico­las a pros­e­lyte of An­ti­och: 6 Whom they set be­fore the apos­tles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. 7 And the word of God in­creased; and the num­ber of the dis­ci­ples mul­ti­plied in Jerusalem great­ly; and a great com­pa­ny of the priests were obe­di­ent to the faith. 8 And Stephen, full of faith and pow­er, did great won­ders and mir­a­cles among the peo­ple. 9 Then there arose cer­tain of the syn­a­gogue, which is called the synagogue of the Lib­ertines, and Cyre­ni­ans, and Alexan­dri­ans, and of them of Cili­cia and of Asia, dis­put­ing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to re­sist the wis­dom and the spir­it by which he spake. 11 Then they sub­orned men, which said, We have heard him speak blas­phe­mous words against Moses, and against God. 12 And they stirred up the peo­ple, and the el­ders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the coun­cil, 13 And set up false wit­ness­es, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blas­phe­mous words against this holy place, and the law: 14 For we have heard him say, that this Je­sus of Nazareth shall de­stroy this place, and shall change the cus­toms which Moses de­liv­ered us. 15 And all that sat in the coun­cil, look­ing sted­fast­ly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an an­gel.