4Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.
5And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:
6These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.
7And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.
8And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
9But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.
10But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.