On the next day, their rulers, elders, and experts in the law came together in Jerusalem.

They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”