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6And 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.
²Then 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.
³Wherefore, 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.
⁴But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
⁵And 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:
⁶Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
⁷And 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.
⁸And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
⁹Then 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.
¹⁰And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
¹¹Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
¹²And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
¹³And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
¹⁴For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
¹⁵And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

7Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
²And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
⁴⁴Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
⁴⁵Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
⁴⁶Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
⁴⁷But Solomon built him an house.
⁴⁸Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
⁴⁹Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
⁵⁰Hath not my hand made all these things?
⁵¹Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
⁵³Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
⁵⁴When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
⁵⁵But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
⁵⁶And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
⁵⁷Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
⁵⁸And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
⁶⁰And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.