1 En in die dae toe die dissipels vermeerder het, het daar 'n murmurering ontstaan van die Griekssprekende Jode teen die Hebreërs, omdat hulle weduwees in die daaglikse versorging oor die hoof gesien is.

2 En die twaalf het die menigte van die dissipels byeengeroep en gesê: Dit is nie reg dat ons die woord van God nalaat om die tafels te bedien nie.

3 Kyk dan uit, broeders, na sewe manne uit julle, van goeie getuienis, vol van die Heilige Gees en wysheid, wat ons oor hierdie nodige saak kan aanstel;

4 maar ons sal volhard in die gebed en die bediening van die woord.

5 En die woord het byval gevind by die hele menigte; en hulle het gekies: St,fanus, 'n man vol van geloof en van die Heilige Gees, en Filippus en Prochorus en Nik nor en Timon en P rmenas en Nikol s, 'n Jodegenoot uit Antioch¡ë,

6 wat hulle voor die apostels gestel het; en hulle het gebid en hulle die hande opgelê.

7 En die woord van God het toegeneem, en die getal van die dissipels het in Jerusalem baie vermeerder, en 'n groot menigte van priesters het gehoorsaam geword aan die geloof.

8 En St,fanus, vol van geloof en krag, het groot wonders en tekens onder die volk gedoen.

9 En daar het sommige van die sogenaamde sinagoge van die Libertyne opgestaan, en van die Ciren,ërs en Alexandryne, en van die mense van Cil¡cië en Asië, en hulle het met St,fanus geredetwis.

10 Maar hulle kon die wysheid en die Gees waardeur hy gespreek het, nie weerstaan nie.

11 Toe het hulle manne opgestook om te sê: Ons het hom lasterlike dinge hoor praat teen Moses en God.

12 En hulle het die volk en die ouderlinge en die skrifgeleerdes in beweging gebring en op hom afgekom en hom gegryp en voor die Raad gebring.

13 En hulle het valse getuies laat optree om te sê: Di, man hou nie op om lasterlike dinge te praat teen hierdie heilige plek en die wet nie.

14 Want ons het hom hoor sê: Hierdie Jesus, die Nasar,ner, sal hierdie plek afbreek en die sedes wat Moses aan ons oorgelewer het, verander.

15 En terwyl almal wat in die Raad sit, hul oë stip op hom hou, sien hulle dat sy gesig soos die gesig van 'n engel was.

1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

2 And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.

3 Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

4 Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

5 And 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:

6 These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.

7 And 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.

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

9 But 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.

10 But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.

11 Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.

12 And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,

13 And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

14 For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

15 And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.