The Arrest of Stephen

8 Now Stephen, a man full of [fn]faith and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 But some men from the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), along with some of the Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some men from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and began to argue with Stephen. 10 But they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. 11 Then they induced some men to say, “We heard Stephen speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God.” 12 They also stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes. So they came up to Stephen, seized him, and brought him to the Sanhedrin. 13 Then they put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking [fn]blasphemous words against [fn]the holy place and against the law. 14 For we heard him saying that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.” 15 And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin stared at Stephen intently and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.