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The ordination of the seven deacons. The zeal of Stephen.
6:1. And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there
arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their
widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Greeks... So they called the Jews that were born and brought up in
Greece.
6:2. Then the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples,
said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve
tables.
6:3. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good
reputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over
this business.
6:4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the
ministry of the word.
6:5. And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and
Prochorus and Nicanor, and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte
of Antioch.
6:6. These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed hands
upon them.
6:7. And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples
was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the
priests obeyed the faith.
6:8. And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and
signs among the people.
6:9. Now there arose some, of that which is called the synagogue of the
Libertines and of the Cyrenians and of the Alexandrians and of them that
were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
6:10. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that
spoke.
6:11. Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of
blasphemy against Moses and against God.
6:12. And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes.
And running together, they took him and brought him to the council.
6:13. And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to
speak words against the holy place and the law.
6:14. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall
destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered
unto us.
6:15. And all that sat in the council, looking on him, saw his face as
if it had been the face of an angel.
Acts Chapter 7
Stephen's speech before the council. His martyrdom.
7:1. Then the high priest said: Are these things so?
7:2. Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory
appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
dwelt in Charan.
7:3. And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred:
and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
7:4. Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan.
And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this
land, wherein you now dwell.
7:5. And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot.
But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him,
when as yet he had no child.
7:6. And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange
country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them
evil four hundred years.
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