Acts 6 King James Version 1611

From Textus Receptus

• 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.