Acts 6:9-15 ▼

9 and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, the [one] called Libertines (and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia), disputing with Stephen,

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

11 then they suborned men, saying, “We have heard him speaking slanderous sayings in regard to Moses and God.”

12 They also stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come on [him], they caught him, and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin;

13 they also set up false witnesses, saying, “This one does not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the Law,

14 for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarean will overthrow this place, and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us”;

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