DAY 6

AC-5:40  And to him they agreed: and when they had called the

apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not

speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

AC-5:41  And they departed from the presence of the council,

rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his

name.

AC-5:42  And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased

not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

*AC-6:1  And in those days, when the number of the disciples was

multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the

Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily

ministration.

AC-6:2  Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples

[unto

them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word

of

God, and serve tables.

AC-6:3  Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of

honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may

appoint over this business.

AC-6:4  But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to

the

ministry of the word.

AC-6:5  And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they

chose

Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip,

and

Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a

proselyte of Antioch:

AC-6:6  Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had

prayed,

they laid [their] hands on them.

AC-6:7  And the word of God increased; and the number of the

disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of

the priests were obedient to the faith.

AC-6:8  And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders

and

miracles among the people.

AC-6:9  Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is

called

[the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and

Alexandrians,

and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

AC-6:10  And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the

spirit

by which he spake.

AC-6:11  Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him

speak

blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God.

AC-6:12  And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the

scribes, and came upon [him], and caught him, and brought [him]

to

the council,

AC-6:13  And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth

not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the

law:

AC-6:14  For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth

shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which

Moses

delivered us.

AC-6:15  And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on

him,

saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

*AC-7:1  Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

AC-7:2  And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The

God of

glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in

Mesopotamia,

before he dwelt in Charran,

AC-7:3  And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from

thy

kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

AC-7:4  Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and

dwelt in

Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed

him

into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

AC-7:5  And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much

as]

to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him

for

a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no

child.

AC-7:6  And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn

in

a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and

entreat [them] evil four hundred years.

AC-7:7  And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I

judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve

me

in this place.

AC-7:8  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so

[Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and

Isaac

[begat] Jacob; and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs.

AC-7:9  And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into

Egypt:

but God was with him,

AC-7:10  And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave

him

favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he

made

him governor over Egypt and all his house.

AC-7:11  Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and

Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no

sustenance.

AC-7:12  But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he

sent

out our fathers first.

AC-7:13  And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his

brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

AC-7:14  Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to [him],

and

all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

AC-7:15  So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our

fathers,

AC-7:16  And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the

sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of

Emmor [the father] of Sychem. 

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