STEPHEN

Passages on this topic · 21

• Acts 6:3

  Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

• Acts 6:5

  These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

• Acts 6:6

  whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

• Acts 6:8

  Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

• Acts 6:9

  But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

• Acts 6:10

  They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

• Acts 6:11

  Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

• Acts 6:12

  They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

• Acts 6:13

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 6:14

  For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

• Acts 6:15

  All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

• Acts 7:54

  Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

• Acts 7:55

  But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

• Acts 7:56

  and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

• Acts 7:57

  But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

• Acts 7:58

  They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

• Acts 7:59

  They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

• Acts 7:60

  He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

• Acts 8:1

  Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

• Acts 8:2

  Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

• Acts 22:20

  When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’