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¹ And in those dayes, when the number of ye disciples grewe, there arose a grudge among the Grekes agaynst ye Hebrues, because their wydowes were despysed in the dayly ministerie.² Then the twelue called the multitude of the disciples together, and sayde: It is not good that we shoulde leaue the worde of God, and serue tables.³ Wherfore brethren, loke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, & full of the holy ghost, and wysedome, to who we may commit this busynesse.⁴ But we wyll geue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministerie of the worde.⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Steuen, a man full of fayth, and of the holy ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, & Timon, and Permenas, and Nicolas a conuert of Antioche.⁶ These they set before the apostles: and whe they had prayed, they layde their handes on them.⁷ And the worde of God encreased, & the number of ye disciples multiplied in Hierusalem greatly, and a great companie of the priestes were obedient to ye fayth.

⁸ And Steuen full of fayth & power, dyd great wonders & miracles among the people.⁹ Then there arose certaine of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of Alexandria, and of Cilicia, & of Asia, disputyng with Steuen.¹⁰ And they coulde not resiste the wisedome and the spirite by the whiche he spake.¹¹ Then they priuilie prepared men, whiche sayde, we haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes agaynst Moyses, and agaynst God.¹² And they moued the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came vppon hym, and caught him, and brought him to the counsell.¹³ And brought foorth false witnesses, which sayde: This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynste this holy place and the lawe.¹⁴ For we hearde hym say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shal destroy this place, & shall chaunge the ordinaunces which Moyses gaue vs:¹⁵ And all that sate in the counsell, loking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had ben the face of an angell.