Acts 7:40-60 ▼

40 saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him.

41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 And God turned away, and gave them up to serve the host of the heaven; as has been written in the book of the prophets: Slain victims and sacrifices you have not brought unto me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel.

43 And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

44 And the tabernacle of testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, as the one speaking to Moses commanded him to make it according to the example he had seen;

45 which our fathers receiving, brought in along with Joshua in the dispossession of the nations, whom God drove out, from the face of our fathers, until the days of David,

46 who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.

47 But Solomon built a house for him.

48 But the Most High dwelleth not in houses built with hands, as the prophet says,

49 Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool of my feet: What house will you build for me? says the Lord; Or what shall be the place of my rest?

50 Hath not my hand made all of these things?

51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.

52 Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became:

53 who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.

54 And hearing these words, they were cut through their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.

55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

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

57 And crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears, and unanimously rushed on him,

58 and casting him out from the city, they began to stone him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, called Saul:

59 and continued to stone Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

60 And putting down his knees, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not impute this sin to them. And saying this, he fell asleep.