Acts 7:39-60 ▼

39 To whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back into Egypt,

40 Having said to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has been to him.

41 And they made a calf in those days, and brought up a sacrifice to the image, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

42 And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,

43 And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, types which ye made to worship them: and I will transplant you beyond Babylon.

44 The tent of testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as he speaking set to Moses, to make it according to the type which he had seen.

45 Which also our fathers having received brought in with Jesus in the possession of nations, which God drove out from our fathers' face, even to the days of David;

46 Who found grace before God, and asked to find a tent to the God of Jacob.

47 And Solomon built for himself a house.

48 But the Highest dwells not in temples made by hands; as says the prophet,

49 Heaven a throne to me, and earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build to me? says the Lord: or what the place of my rest?

50 Did not my hand make all these things?

51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

53 Who have received the law by the regulations of messengers, and ye watched not.

54 And having heard those, they were sawn through their hearts, and they gnashed the teeth upon him.

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

56 And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

57 And having cried with a great voice, they held fast their ears, and rushed unanimously upon him,

58 And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul.

59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

60 And having set the knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest thou not set this sin to them. And having said this he was set to sleep.