Acts 5:12 – 8:3 Karisa Karlovich

Acts 5:12-16 12 Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. 13 None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. 14 Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, 15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. 16 A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured. St. Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow Masaccio, 1426-27 St. peter and st. paul

Acts 5:17-20 17 Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy, 18 arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. 19 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, brought them out, and said, 20 "Go, stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life." The Prison Opened Unknown, 1896

St. Stephen Is Consecrated Deacon Acts 6:1-7 St. Stephen Is Consecrated Deacon Vittore Carpaccio, 1511

Acts 6:8 – 7:56 St. Stephen Preaching & Addressing the Council Fra Angelico 1447-49

Acts 7:57-60 57 But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him. 58 Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this he died.

The Stoning of St. Stephen The Stoning of St. Stephen Caspar Luiken, 1712 The Stoning of St. Stephen Pietro da Cortona, 1660

Acts 8:1-3 1 And Saul approved of their killing him. That day a severe persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria. 2 Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lamentation over him. 3 But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison. The Burial of St. Stephen Juan de Juanes, no date