And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
And Stephen ... The foregoing narrative of the first election and ordination of deacons might probably not have been given at all, but that it seemed necessary to the understanding of what follows regarding the martyr Stephen, that the reader should know what first brought him into public notice.
Full of faith - but the true reading here certainly is, 'full of grace' х charitos (G5485) - with 'Aleph (') A B D, and more than 20 manuscripts.; the Vulgate, and most ancient versions, and many fathers. It is adopted by Lachmann and Tischendorf, and approved by all critical commentators. The received reading, pisteoos (G4102), has but inferior support, and those manuscripts which have it probably repeated it from Acts 6:5.]
And power - here meaning supernatural power, as is evident from what follows.