Acts 6:8

And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people.

No record of specific signs has come down to us; but the fact of their designation here as "great" proves them to have been miracles of the first magnitude. Stephen was a man of the most noble character and of the mightiest ability, "the morning star who ushered in the dawn of St. Paul's ministry!"[20] This verse is "the first indication of miracles worked by any (of our Lord's followers) except the apostles of the Lord Jesus."[21] Even these signs, however, were not done apart from the apostles, because it was through the laying on of their hands that Stephen had received such powers.

[20] G. B. F. Hallock, Doran's Ministers Manual (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930), p. 579.

[21] Orin Root, Acts (Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1966), p. 44.