this is an article I made after reading the story of Stephen in the bible.
Stephen has just died from being stoned. The story of this is unbelievable! You will be one of the first to know, thanks to our own, Eye Witness, Jimmy. Jimmy will now tell us the story. ‘One day, since the number of the disciples was growing tremendously, the Self-Centered jews were getting mad. The said the widows were being overlooked without enough food. We all agreed that this was true, so we picked 7 men who were full of the spirit. These 7 men were Stephen, Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas. There job was to take care of the people who were sick, or didn’t get enough food, etc. Stephen, one of the 7, was full of God’s grace and power. He performed great wonders and signes among us, they were so cool. There were some men from the synagogue of the Freedmen who didn’t like what was happening, they began to argue with Stephen. Everyone agreed with them. It was difficult to go against Stephen because of the wisdom from the spirit. They then secretly got some men to say that they heard Stephen speak blasphemous things against moses and God. They stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law, They took Stephen before the Sanhedrin. They even got witnesses who lied and said he never stops speaking against them. He then told the story about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses. And told how God was with each and every one of these people. When they heard about this they were furious, they gnashed their teeth at him. At this point I ran, I didn’t want to be in the middle of all this. My friend was one of the furious people, after he calmed down I got him to help me on this interview so heres the rest of this story from his view. So after he ran away Stephen looked up to the sky, he said he was looking at heaven and he saw the glory of God, and also Jesus standing at the right hand of God. We all covered our ears and yelled at the top of our voices rushing at him. We dragged him away from the city and started to stone him. All the witnesses started laying there coats at the feet of a man that goes by the name Saul. While Stephen was being stoned I saw him fall onto his knees, I heard him say something. I’m not quite sure what exactly he said but I heard someone else say he was praying, I think it went something like this ‘Lord receive my spirit, don’t hold sin against them.’ The he died. After he died everyone left, I stayed behind and thought about what I had just done. I then felt really bad and confessed my sins and became a Christian, I am now trying to get my fellow members of the Sanhedrin to become Christians also.
