STEPHEN, A MAN FULL OF GRACE AND POWER

Stephen Seized

8 NOW STEPHEN,

A MAN FULL OF GOD'S GRACE AND POWER,

DID GREAT WONDERS AND MIRACULOUS SIGNS

AMONG THE PEOPLE.

9 Opposition arose, however,

From members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen

(As it was called)--

Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria

As well as the Provinces of Cilicia and Asia.

THESE MEN BEGAN TO ARGUE WITH STEPHEN,

10 BUT THEY COULD NOT STAND UP

AGAINST HIS WISDOM

OR THE SPIRIT BY WHICH HE SPOKE.

11Then they Secretly Persuaded some men to say,

'WE HAVE HEARD STEPHEN SPEAK WORDS OF BLASPHEMY

AGAINST MOSES AND AGAINST GOD.'

12 SO THEY STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE

AND THE ELDERS AND THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW.

They Seized Stephen

And brought him before the Sanhedrin.

13 THEY PRODUCED FALSE WITNESSES,

WHO TESTIFIED,

'THIS FELLOW NEVER STOPS SPEAKING

AGAINST THE HOLY PLACE

AND AGAINST THE LAW.

For we have heard him say

That this Jesus of Nazareth

Will Destroy this place

And change the customs Moses handed down to us.'

15 ALL WHO WERE SITTING IN THE SANHEDRIN

LOOKED INTENTLY AT STEPHEN,

AND THEY SAW THAT HIS FACE

WAS LIKE THE FACE OF AND ANGEL.

(Acts 6:8-13)