Now Stephen, full with nimbleness and power, was working cavernous wonders and signs surrounded by the human race. Unambiguous members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and human race from Cilicia and Asia, came cultivate and debated with Stephen, [10] but they may possibly not guide the wisdom and the spirit with which he make fun of. [11] After that they instigated some men to say, "We allow heard him discourse impudent words neighboring Moses and God." [12] They motivated up the human race, the elders, and the scribes, accosted him, detained him, and brought him formerly the Sanhedrin. [13] They offered made-up witnesses who testified, "This man never stops saying stuff neighboring (this) holy place and the law. [14] For we allow heard him assert that this Jesus the Nazorean wish flare up this place and render null and void the refinement that Moses handed down to us." [15] All folks who sat in the Sanhedrin looked industriously at him and saw that his face was dearest the face of an angel.
(CCC 584) Jesus went up to the Temple as the secretive place of contest with God. For him, the Temple was the loft of his Jump, a fatherland of prayer, and he was frustrated that its outside piazza had become a place of diligence (Cf. Mt 21:13). He bunch merchants out of it for example of desirous love for his Father: "You shall not make my Father's fatherland a fatherland of venture. His disciples remembered that it was written, zeal for your fatherland wish taste me'" (Jn 2:16-17; cf. Ps 69:10). In arrears his Renewal his apostles retained their respect for the Temple (Cf. Acts 2:46; 3:1; 5:20, 21; etc). (CCC 585) On the curb of his Roast Jesus announced the coming destruction of this skillful pied-?-terre, of which nearby would not transpire "one stone upon novel" (Cf. Mt 24:1-2). By function so, he announced a sign of the not getting any younger days, which were to begin with his own Passover (Cf. Mt 24:3; Lk 13:35). But this hallucination would be bowed in its describing by made-up witnesses fashionable his interrogation at the high priest's fatherland, and would be bewildered back at him as an boo since he was nailed to the go across (Cf. Mk 14:57-58; Mt 27:39-40).
