Acts 6

Great^{(i) 1} In those dayes (whan the nomber of the discyples grewe) there arose a grudge amonge the Grekes against the Hebrues, because their weddowes were despysed in the dayly ministracyon. ² Then the twelue called the multitude of the disciples together and sayde, it is not mete, that we shuld leaue the worde of God: and serue tables. ³ Wherfore brethren, loke ye out amonge you seuen men of honeste report, and full of the holy ghost and wisdom, to whom we maye committe this busynes. ⁴ But we wyll geue oure selues continually to prayer, and to the ministracyon of the worde. ⁵ And the sayinge pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Steuen a man full of faith and of the holy ghost, and Philip, and Procorus, and Nichanor, and Timon, and Permenas, and Nicolas a conuert of Antioche. ⁶ These they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they layde theyr handes on them. ⁷ And the word of God encreased, and the nomber of the disciples multiplyed in Ierusalem greatly, and a greate companye of the prestes were obedient to the fayth. ⁸ And Steuen, full of fayth and power, dyd great wondres and miracles amonge the people. ⁹ Then ther arose certen of the Synagoges, which is called the Synagoge of the Libertynes and Sirenytes, and of Alexandria, and of Celicia, and of Asia, disputynge with Steuen. ¹⁰ And they coulde not resyste the wisdome, & the sprete, which spake. ¹¹ Then sent they in men, which sayde: we haue hearde hym speake blasphemous wordes against Moses, and agaynst God. ¹² And they moued the people and the elders and the scribes: and came vpon him and caught hym, ¹³ and brought him to the councell, and brought forth false witnesse, which sayde: Thys man ceaseth not to speake blasphemous wordes against this holy place and the lawe: ¹⁴ for we heard him saye: this Iesus of Nazareth shal destroye this place, and shal chaunge the ordinaunces, which Moses gaue vs. ¹⁵ And all that sate in the counsell, loked stedfastly on him, and sawe his face as it had bene the face of an aungell.