that believed him were scattered and
brought to nothing.

5:37. After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the
enrolling, and drew away the people after him. He also perished: and
all, even as many as consented to him, were dispersed.

5:38. And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let
them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to
nought:

5:39. But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be
found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.

5:40. And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they
charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. And
they dismissed them.

5:41. And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of
Jesus.

5:42. And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to
house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.

Acts Chapter 6

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, disputin