006:011 Then they privately put forward men who declared, "We have heard
him speak blasphemous things against Moses and against God."
006:012 In this way they excited the people, the Elders, and the Scribes.
At length they came upon him, seized him with violence,
and took him before the Sanhedrin.
006:013 Here they brought forward false witnesses who declared,
"This fellow is incessantly speaking against the Holy Place
and the Law.
006:014 For we have heard him say that Jesus, the Nazarene, will pull
this place down to the ground and will change the customs
which Moses handed down to us."
006:015 At once the eyes of all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin
were fastened on him, and they saw his face looking just
like the face of an angel.
007:001 Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"
007:002 The reply of Stephen was, "Sirs--brethren and fathers--listen to me.
God Most Glorious appeared to our forefather Abraham when
he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
007:003 and said to him, "`Leave your country and your relatives,
and go into whatever land I point out to you.'
007:004 "Thereupon he left Chaldaea and settled in Haran till after
the death of his father, when God caused him to remove into
this country where you now live.
007:005 But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square
yard of ground. And yet He promised to bestow the land
as a permanent possession on him and his posterity after him--
and promised this at a time when Abraham was childless.
007:006 And God declared that Abraham's posterity should for four
hundred years make their home in a country not their own,
and be reduced to slavery and be oppressed.