Lesson 12: Acts

Acts 6:8-15

Acts 6:8 ESV

8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 6:5 “5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.”

full of grace and power

wonders and signs

healing?

Acts 6:9 ESV

9 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.

Hellenistic Jews

Freedmen

Disputed

Acts 6:10 ESV

10 But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

Withstand

Acts 6:11 ESV

11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

Blasphemous words

Moses and God

Acts 6:12 ESV

12 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,

Stirred up the people

the elders and the scribes

seized him

the council (Sanhedrin) [Luke 12:8-12]

Acts 6:13–14 ESV

13 and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak 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 that Moses delivered to us.”

false witnesses

holy place (temple) [John 2:19; Matt 12:6; Matt 24:1]

law

Acts 6:15 ESV

15 And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

face of an angel