4. and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'
5. And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,
6. whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them [their] hands.
7. And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.
8. And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,
9. and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,
10. and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;
11. then they suborned men, saying--`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'