8. Now Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
9. Then some men rose up from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and of Asia), disputing with Stephen.
10. But they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
11. Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
12. So they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and came upon him and seized him and led him to the Sanhedrin,
13. and set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
14. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses handed down to us.”
15. All who sat in the Sanhedrin, gazing at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.