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Stephen Is Seized While Doing Miracles And Proclaiming Christ With Irresistible Wisdom

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. But some of the ones from the synagogue being called “of Freedmen[a]”— both[b] Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and the ones from Cilicia and Asia— rose-up, debating[c] with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 6:9 That is, Hellenistic Jewish slaves who were freed and then returned to Israel.
  2. Acts 6:9 Or, and. Luke may be naming five, two, or one synagogue.
  3. Acts 6:9 Or, disputing.

Stephen Seized

Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs(A) among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene(B) and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia(C) and Asia(D)—who began to argue with Stephen. 10 But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.(E)

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