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STEPHEN DEFENDS HIS FAITH

October 7

Lesson 6
STEPHEN DEFENDS HIS FAITH

DEVOTIONAL READING: Proverbs 8:1–11
BACKGROUND SCRIPTURE: Acts 6:1–7:53


ACTS 6:8–15

8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
9 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.
10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.


ACTS 7:1, 2A, 22, 44A, 45B–49

1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2a And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken.

22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

44a Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, …
45b … unto the days of David;
46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him an house.
48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?


KEY VERSE
Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.—Acts 6:8


The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2012–2013, ed. Ronald L. Nickelson and Jonathan Underwood (Cincinnati, OH: Standard, 2012). 49-50.

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