of the priests were obedient to the faith. 006:008 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. 006:009 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. 006:010 They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. 006:011 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 006:012 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council, 006:013 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. 006:014 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." 006:015 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel. 007:001 The high priest said, "Are these things so?" 007:002 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 007:003 and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'{Genesis 12:1} 007:004 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. 007:005 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child. 007:006 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. 007:007 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'{Genesis 15:13-14} 007:008 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. 007:009 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him, 007:010 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 007:011 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. 007:012 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent