Textus Receptus Bibles
Matthew's Bible 1537
| 6:1 | In those dayes as the numbre of the disciples grewe, ther arose a a grudge amonge the Grekes agaynste the Hebrues, because their widdowes were despysed in the dayly ministracion. |
| 6:2 | Then the twelue called the multitude of the dysciples together and saide: it is not mete that we shoulde leaue the worde of God and serue at the tables. |
| 6:3 | Wherfore brethren, loke ye out amonge you seuen men of honeste reporte, and full of the holye ghoste and wysdome, whyche we maye apoint to this nedfull busines. |
| 6:4 | But we wyl geue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministracion of the word. |
| 6:5 | And the saiynge pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephan a man full of faieth and of the holye ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nichanor, and Timon, and Permenas, and Nicholas a conuerte of Antioche. |
| 6:6 | Whiche they set before the Apostles, and they praied and laide their handes on them. |
| 6:7 | And the worde of God encreased, and the numbre of the disciples multiplyed in Hierusalem greatly, and a great companye of the priestes were obedient to the faith. |
| 6:8 | And Stephane ful of fayth and power, dyd greate wounders and miracles amonge the people. |
| 6:9 | Then arose certaine of the Synagoge, whyche are called Lybertines and Syrenites, and of Alexandria, and of Cilicia, and Asia, and disputed with Stephan. |
| 6:10 | And they could not resist the wysdome, and the spyryte wt whyche he spake. |
| 6:11 | Then sent they in men, whiche said: we haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes against Moyses and against God. |
| 6:12 | And they moued the people and the elders and the scribes: and came vpon him and caught hym, |
| 6:13 | and brought him to the counsell and brought forth false witnesses whiche sayde. This man ceaseth not to speake blaspemous wordes against thys holy place, and the lawe, |
| 6:14 | for we hearde him saie: this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroye this place, and shal chaung the ordinaunces, which Moises gaue vs. |
| 6:15 | And al that sate in the counsel loked stedfastlye on hym, and saw hys face as it had bene the face of an aungel. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.