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over this business. (4)But we will give ourselves to prayer, and to
the ministry of the word.

(5)And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen,
a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus,
and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of
Antioch, (6)whom they set before the apostles; and having prayed, they
laid their hands on them.

(7)And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples
multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests
were obedient to the faith.

(8)And Stephen, full of grace and of power, did great wonders and
signs among the people. (9)And there arose certain ones of the
synagogue so called of the Freedmen[6:9], and Cyrenians, and
Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with
Stephen. (10)And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the
spirit with which he spoke. (11)Then they suborned men, who said: We
have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

(12)And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes;
and coming upon him, they seized him, and brought him to the council,
(13)and set up false witnesses, Who said: This man ceases not to speak
words against this holy place, and the law. (14)For we have heard him
say, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will
change the customs which Moses delivered to us. (15)And all that sat
in the council, looking intently upon him, saw his face as the face of
an angel.

VII.

AND the high priest said: Are then these things so? (2)And he said:
Brethren, and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
(3)and said to him: Go forth from thy country, and from thy kindred,
and come into the land which I shall show thee. (4)Then he went forth
from the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran; and from thence,
after his father was dead, he caused him to remove into this land,
wherein ye now dwell. (5)And he gave him no inheritance in it, not
even a foot-breadth; and he promised to give it to him for a
possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child. (6)And
God spoke after this manner, that his seed shall be a sojourner in a
strange land, and they will bring them into bondage, and afflict them
four hundred years. (7)And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage
I will judge, said God; and aft