⁸Stephen was a man filled with God’s favor^aand power. He did amazing things and performed miracles. ⁹⸤One day⸥ some men from the cities of Cyrene and Alexandria and the provinces of Cilicia and Asia started an argument with Stephen. They belonged to a synagogue called Freedmen’s Synagogue. ¹⁰They couldn’t argue with Stephen because he spoke with the wisdom that the Spirit had given him. ¹¹Then they bribed some men to lie.

These men said, “We heard him slander Moses and God.” ¹²The liars stirred up trouble among the people, the leaders, and the experts in Moses’ Teachings. So they went to Stephen, took him by force, and brought him in front of the Jewish council. ¹³Some witnesses stood up and lied about Stephen. They said, “This man never stops saying bad things about the holy place and Moses’ Teachings. ¹⁴We heard him say that Jesus from Nazareth will destroy the temple and change the customs that Moses gave us.”

¹⁵Everyone who sat in the council stared at him and saw that his face looked like an angel’s face.

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Footnotes

a 6:8 Or “grace.”