Acts 7:33-56

³³So the Lord said to him: ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

³⁴I have definitely seen the mistreatment of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groaning; and I have come down to deliver them. So now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

³⁵“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as leader and deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

³⁷“This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, like me.’

³⁸This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, who was with the Angel who spoke with him on Mount Sinai and was with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us;

³⁹to whom our fathers did not want to be obedient; rather they rejected him and turned back in their heart to Egypt,

⁴⁰saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us; because this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what has become of him.’

⁴¹Well they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and started rejoicing in the works of their hands.

⁴²But God turned away and gave them over to serve the army of the heaven, just as it is written in Book of the Prophets: ‘House of Israel, did you offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness?

⁴³Actually you took along the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god, Rephan, the images that you made to worship; so I will relocate you beyond Babylon.’

⁴⁴“The tent of the testimony, according to the pattern that Moses had seen, just as the One speaking to him had commanded to make it, was with our fathers in the wilderness;

⁴⁵which, having received it in turn, our fathers with Joshua brought into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

⁴⁶who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob,

⁴⁷but Solomon built Him a house.

⁴⁸However, the Most High does not dwell in handmade sanctuaries, just as the prophet says:

⁴⁹‘Heaven is my throne, while the earth is a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me,’ says the Lord, ‘or what place for my rest?

⁵⁰Did not my hand make all these things?’

⁵¹“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so you do.

⁵²Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers;

⁵³you who received the Law as ‘ordinances of angels’ and have not kept it!”

⁵⁴Well as they heard these things their hearts were being sawed in half, and they started gnashing their teeth at him.

⁵⁵But he, being full of Holy Spirit and looking intently into the heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on God's right,

⁵⁶and said, “Wow! I see the heavens opened and the Son of the Man standing at God's right!”