Acts 7:46-54

⁴⁶David found favour with God, and prayed that he might provide the God of Jacob with a place to reside.

⁴⁷But it was Solomon who built a house for God.

⁴⁸Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the prophet says —

⁴⁹‘The heavens are a throne for me, and the earth a stool for my feet. What manner of house will you build me, asks the Lord, or what place is there where I may rest?

⁵⁰Was it not my hand that made all these things?’

⁵¹Stubborn people, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.

⁵²Which of the prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the righteous one; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers —

⁵³You who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.”

⁵⁴As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.