Stephen The Evangelist
Stephen The Evangelist (?-34AD) was a sovereign grace Baptist preacher. He was a member of one of the congregations in Jerusalem, endowed with spiritual wisdom and held in high esteem by the brethren. He was gifted and called to preach the gospel, a commission he fulfilled in the face of great opposition. He is the first Christian on record to suffer martyrdom after the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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22. Stephen
Stephen stoned outside Jerusalem, A.D. 34. Stephen, One of the Seven Deacons of the Church at Jerusalem, Stoned without the Gate of the City, by the Libertines, A.D. 34, Shortly after the Death of Christ. Stephen, which in Greek signifies a crown, was one of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem, a man full of faith and the wisdom of God. Acts 6:5. He was well versed in the holy Scriptures of the Old Testament, and very eloquent. It happened that there arose certain of the sect of the Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, and disputed with Stephen; and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake. Then they suborned…
