Acts 6:7-12

⁷So God's message spread, and the number of the disciples continued to increase rapidly in Jerusalem, and a large body of the priests accepted the faith.

⁸Meanwhile Stephen, divinely helped and strengthened, was showing great wonders and signs amongst the people.

⁹But some members of the Synagogue of the Freed Slaves (as it was called), Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and Visitors from Cilicia and Roman Asia, were roused to action and began disputing with Stephen;

¹⁰yet they were quite unable to withstand the wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke.

¹¹Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;

¹²and they stirred up the people, as well as the elders and the teachers of the Law, and set on Stephen, and arrested him, and brought him before the High Council.