Stephen
Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that
arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus,
and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews
only....
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Saint Stephen (Koine Greek: Στέφανος, Stephanos), known as the
protomartyr of Christianity, is venerated as a saint in the
Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox
Churches. Stephen means "wreath" or "crown" in Greek......
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Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called
[the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and
Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing
with Stephen....
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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and
Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas,
and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:...
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ste'-vn (Stephanos, "crown" (Acts 6:5 through 8:12)):
1. His Personal Antecedents
2. His Character and Activity
3. His Teaching
4. His Arraignment before the Sanhedrin
5. His Defence before the Sanhedrin
(1) Personal Defence
(2) Defense of His Teaching
6. Martyrdom of Stephen
LITERATURE
Known best as the proto-martyr of the Christian church,
intr...
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-(A Christian martyr)
-Appointed one of the committee of seven to oversee the
daily
ministration
Ac 6:3,5,6
-Faith and power of
Ac 6:5,8-10
-False charges against
Ac 6:11-15
-Defense of
Ac 7
-Stoned
Ac 7:54-60; 8:1; 22:20
-Burial of
Ac 8:2
-Gentle and forgiving spirit of
Ac 7:59,60...
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the first Christian martyr, was the chief of the seven
(commonly called Deacons) appointed to rectify the
complaints in the early Church of Jerusalem, made by the
Hellenistic against the hebrew Christians. His Greek name
indicates his own Hellenistic origin. His importance is
stamped on the narrative by a reiteration of emphatic,
almost super...
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one of the seven deacons, who became a preacher of the
gospel.
He was the first Christian martyr. His personal
character and
history are recorded in Acts 6. "He fell asleep"
with a prayer
for his persecutors on his lips (7:60). Devout men
carried him
to his grave (8:2).
It was at the feet of the young Pharisee, Saul of
Tarsus, that
those...
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The first of the seven appointed to minister as a deacon in
distributing alms, so that the Grecian widows should not be
neglected while the Hebrew widows were served (Acts 6; 7).
(See DEACON.) His Grecian name (meaning "crown"; by a
significant coincidence he was the first who received the
crown of martyrdom) and his anti-Judaistic speech indi...
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