Acts 6:2-11

²Then the twelve calling together the multitude of the disciples, said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

³Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

⁴But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

⁵And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

⁶These they set before the apostles; and they praying, imposed hands upon them.

⁷And the word of the Lord increased; and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

⁸And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and signs among the people.

⁹Now there arose some of that which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them that were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

¹⁰And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that spoke.

¹¹Then they suborned men to say, they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.