Bible Verses About Stephen

look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them their hands.

And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,

and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,

and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;

then they suborned men, saying--`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him , they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;

they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'

and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,

and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him --and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul--

and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'

and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;

and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;