Acts 7:45-57

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,