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Stephen Arrested

Stephen, full of grace and power, performed great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

Some people then came forward, belonging to the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia, and Asia.

They argued with Stephen, but they couldn’t match the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

Since they couldn’t face the truth, they paid some men to say, ‘We heard him speak against Moses and against God.’

So they stirred up the people, the elders, and the teachers of the law; they confronted him, arrested him, and brought him before the Council.

Then they brought forward false witnesses who testified:

“This man never stops speaking against our Holy Place and the law.

We even heard him say that Jesus, the Nazorean, will destroy our Holy Place and change the customs which Moses handed down to us.”

And everyone sitting in the Council looked at him, and his face seemed to them like the face of an angel.