Acts 7:39-60 ▼

39 To whom our fathers would not be subject, but renounced him, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

40 saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. And they made a calf in those days,

41 and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 Then God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, "O house of Israel, did ye offer to me your victims and sacrifices, for the space of forty years in the wilderness?

43 yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them by: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon."

44 The tabernacle of witness was among our fathers in the wilderness, as He, that spake unto Moses, ordered him to make it according to the model which he had seen in the mount:

45 and which our fathers receiving, they with Joshua, brought into the territory of the nations, whom God drove out from before the face of our fathers, till the days of David, who found favor in the sight of God,

46 and was desirous to provide an habitation for the God of Jacob.

47 But Solomon built Him an house.

48 Though the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as the prophet saith,

49 "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what house will ye build for me, saith the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

50 hath not my hand made all these things? " ---

51 Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and slew those who prophesied concerning the coming of that righteous One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers;

53 who received the law by the ministration of angels, and yet have not kept it.

54 And when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart and gnashed their teeth at him.

55 But he being full of the holy Spirit looked up stedfastly into heaven, and 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 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

58 and cast him out of the city and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

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

60 And bending his knees, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this he fell asleep.