7. And the word of God kept spreading, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was increasing greatly, and a large number of priests began obeying the faith.
8. Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.
9. But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and disputed with Stephen.
10. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
11. Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!”
12. And they incited the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came up and seized him and brought him to the Sanhedrin.
13. And they put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law!
14. For we have heard him saying that this Nazarene Jesus will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”