1The high priest said, “Are these things true?”
2“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “Y’all must listen to me: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
3and said to him, ‘Leave your land and your relatives, and come into a land I will show you.’
29“When he heard this, Moses fled the land of Midian where he became foreigner and the father of two sons.
30“After forty years had passed, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of a burning bush.
31When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came:
32‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
35“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ God sent as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
37This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me for y’all from among your* people.’
51“Y’all stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! Y’all are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just like your* ancestors did.
52Which one of the prophets didn’t y’all’s ancestors persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers y’all have now become!
53Y’all received the law as it was ordained by angels, but y’all didn’t keep it!”
Stephen’s Execution by Saul54When they heard these things, their hearts were split open with rage, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56and said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Humanity standing at the right hand of God!”
57But they covered their ears, and cried out with loud voices, they all surged against him.
58They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. The witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59While they stoned him, Stephen called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
60Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
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