Acts 6:2-11

²Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not pleasing to us that we should forsake the word of God to serve tables.

³Therefore, brothers, select seven men from among you, of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint for this need.

⁴But we will faithfully engage in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

⁵And the word was pleasing before all the congregation, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,

⁶whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

⁷And the word of God was growing, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was being multiplied exceedingly, and a great many of the priests were obeying the faith.

⁸And Stephen, full of faith and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

⁹But there arose some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, both of the Cyrenians and the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, debating with Stephen.

¹⁰And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

¹¹Then they secretly instigated men to say, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”