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¹ And in those dayes when the number of the Disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrewes, because their widowes were neglected in the daily ministration. ² Then the twelue called the multitude of the disciples vnto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leaue the word of God, and serue tables. ³ Wherefore brethren, looke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, full of the holy Ghost, and wisedome, whom we may appoint ouer this businesse. ⁴ But we will giue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministerie of the word. ⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Steuen, a man full of faith and of the holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Permenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch. ⁶ Whom they set before the Apostles: and when they had praied, they layd their hands on them. ⁷ And the word of God encreased, and the number of the Disciples multiplied in Hierusalem greatly, and a great company of the Priests were obedient to the faith.

⁸ And Steuen full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. ⁹ Then there arose certaine 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 Steuen. ¹⁰ And they were not able to resist the wisedome and the spirit by which he spake. ¹¹ Then they suborned men which said, We haue heard him speake blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. ¹² And they stirred vp the people, and the Elders, and the Scribes, and came vpon him, and caught him, and brought him to the Councell, ¹³ And set vp false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speake blasphemous words against this holy place, and the Law. ¹⁴ For we haue heard him say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, & shall change the Customes which Moses deliuered vs. ¹⁵ And all that sate in the Councell, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had bene the face of an Angel.