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    "chapter": 6
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    "n": 6,
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    "bookCode": "ACT",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "The seven chosen to serve + Stephen seized on false charges",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ACT-6:1",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.1",
        "text": "Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ACT-6:2",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.2",
        "text": "And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ACT-6:3",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.3",
        "text": "Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ACT-6:4",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.4",
        "text": "But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ACT-6:5",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.5",
        "text": "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: 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;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ACT-6:6",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.6",
        "text": "whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ACT-6:7",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.7",
        "text": "And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ACT-6:8",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.8",
        "text": "And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ACT-6:9",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.9",
        "text": "But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ACT-6:10",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.10",
        "text": "And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ACT-6:11",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.11",
        "text": "Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ACT-6:12",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.12",
        "text": "And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ACT-6:13",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.13",
        "text": "and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ACT-6:14",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.14",
        "text": "for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ACT-6:15",
        "verseRef": "ACT.6.15",
        "text": "And all that sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel."
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