9 But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called),Literally "called" both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia,A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor) stood up and*Here "and" is supplied because the participle ("disputed") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style disputed with Stephen. 11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"