2 And Stephen said:
“Brothers and fathers, hear me. xThe God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
51 “You stiff-necked people, iuncircumcised in heart and jears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not kpersecute? And they lkilled those who mannounced beforehand the coming of the nRighteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law as delivered by oangels and did not keep it.”
The Stoning of Stephen
54 Now when they heard these things they were penraged, and they ground their teeth at him. 55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and qsaw the rglory of God, and Jesus sstanding at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, “Behold, I see tthe heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the uright hand of God.” 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and vstopped their ears and rushed together1 at him. 58 Then they cast him wout of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, xreceive my spirit.” 60 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, y“Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell zasleep.
