Bible Verses About Stephen

Brothers, choose seven men from among yourselves who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint them to be in charge of this important matter,

What they said was agreeable to the whole gathering. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Ruach HaKodesh, Philip, Prochoros, Nikanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicholas, who was a proselyte from Antioch.

They presented these men to the emissaries, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, performed great miracles and signs among the people.

But opposition arose from members of the Synagogue of the Freed Slaves (as it was called), composed of Cyrenians, Alexandrians and people from Cilicia and the province of Asia. They argued with Stephen,

but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by which he spoke.

So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, “We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God.”

They stirred up the people, as well as the elders and the Torah-teachers; so they came and arrested him and led him before the Sanhedrin.

There they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the Torah;

for we have heard him say that Yeshua from Natzeret will destroy this place and will change the customs Moshe handed down to us.”

Everyone sitting in the Sanhedrin stared at Stephen and saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.

On hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and ground their teeth at him.

But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God’s Sh’khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God.

“Look!” he exclaimed, “I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn’t have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him,

threw him outside the city and began stoning him. And the witnesses laid down their coats at the feet of a young man named Sha’ul.

As they were stoning him, Stephen called out to God, “Lord Yeshua! Receive my spirit!”

Then he kneeled down and shouted out, “Lord! Don’t hold this sin against them!” With that, he died;

and Sha’ul gave his approval to his murder. Starting with that day, there arose intense persecution against the Messianic Community in Yerushalayim; all but the emissaries were scattered throughout the regions of Y’hudah and Shomron.

Some godly men buried Stephen and mourned him deeply.

also that when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there too, in full agreement; I was even looking after the clothes of the ones who were killing him!’