2 [6:5]And the proposition pleased all the multitude, and they elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus, and Nicanor and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch, [6:6]and set them before the Apostles; and they having prayed imposed hands on them. [6:7]And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples was greatly multiplied at Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith. 3 [6:8]And Stephen, full of grace and power, performed prodigies and great miracles among the people. [6:9]But some members of the synagogue called that of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen, [6:10]and were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he spoke. [6:11]Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God. [6:12]And they stirred up both the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and coming suddenly they seized him and led him to the Sanhedrim, [6:13]and brought forward false witnesses who said, This man speaks incessantly against this holy place, and the law; [6:14]for we have heard him say, that Jesus this Nazoraean will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses gave us. [6:15]And all who sat in the Sanhedrin looking steadily at him saw his face like the face of an angel. 4 [7:1]And the chief priest said, Are these things then so? [7:2]And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, [7:3]and said to him, Go out from your country and your kindred, and come to a land which I will show you. [7:4]Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And thence, after the death of his father, he removed into this land in which you now live. [7:5]And [God] gave him no inheritance in it, not the breadth of a foot, and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his posterity after him, when as yet he had no son. [7:6]And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years; [7:7]and the nation which they shall serve will I judge, said God, and after that they shall come forth and serve me in this place. 5 [7:8]And he gave him the ordinance of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. [7:9]And the patriarchs envying Joseph sold him into Egypt; and God was with him [7:10]and delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and [he] made him governor over Egypt and all his house.