Acts 7

"And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the Council saw his face like the face of an angel." v. 6:15

Here is Stephen, basically on "trial" for preaching the name of Jesus; without fear he starts into a long dissertation defending the Christian faith beginning with the Old Testament including examples of Joseph and Jacob. He concludes with the stories of Joshua, David and Solomon.

His real ending however was directly to the council, "You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did. Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received the law as ordained by angels and yet did not keep it." v. 51-53

How more direct could someone be? They began gnashing their teeth at him. Big surprise! What comes next, yep, they stone Stephen, to death.

But I love this; we know God was happy with Stephen's speech and courage: "...being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." v. 55-56 They continued to stone him and in the end Stephen cried out to God," Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"...."Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" v. 59-60

Not a lot you can say about that.