Acts 7:37-59

³⁷this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.

³⁸'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

³⁹to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

⁴⁰saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him.

⁴¹'And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,

⁴²and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

⁴³and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan — the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

⁴⁴'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

⁴⁵which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,

⁴⁶who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;

⁴⁷and Solomon built Him an house.

⁴⁸'But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

⁴⁹The heaven is My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?

⁵⁰hath not My hand made all these things?

⁵¹'Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers — also ye;

⁵²which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

⁵³who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it.'

⁵⁴And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

⁵⁵and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

⁵⁶and he said, 'Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

⁵⁷And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,

⁵⁸and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him — and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul —

⁵⁹and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'