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• So the twelve called together the general body of the disciples, and said, It is too much that we should have to forgo preaching God’s word, and bestow our care upon tables. (Acts 6, 2)

• Come then, brethren, you must find among you seven men who are well spoken of, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, for us to put in charge of this business, (Acts 6, 3)

• This advice found favour with all the assembly; and they chose Stephen, a man who was full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, who was a proselyte from Antioch. (Acts 6, 5)

• By now the word of God was gaining influence, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was greatly increasing; many of the priests had given their allegiance to the faith. (Acts 6, 7)

• And Stephen, full of grace and power, performed great miracles and signs among the people. (Acts 6, 8)

• There were those who came forward to debate with him, some of the synagogue of the Freedmen✻ (as it is called), and of the Cyreneans and Alexandrians, and of those who came from Cilicia and Asia; (Acts 6, 9)

• but they were no match for Stephen’s wisdom, and for the Spirit which then gave utterance.✻ (Acts 6, 10)

• Having thus roused the feelings of the people, and of the elders and scribes, they set upon him and carried him off, and so brought him before the Council. (Acts 6, 12)

• There they put forward false witnesses, who declared, This man is never tired of uttering insults against the holy place, and the law. (Acts 6, 13)

• And he answered, Brethren and fathers, listen to me. When the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, it was while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he took up his dwelling in Charan. (Acts 7, 2)

• And this is what God told him, that his descendants would live as strangers in a foreign land, where they would be enslaved and ill-used for four hundred years. (Acts 7, 6)

• But I will pass judgement, the Lord said, on the nation which enslaves them; and at last they will escape, and settle down to worship me here.✻ (Acts 7, 7)