<TITLE>Acts 7</TITLE>
[44]"Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. [45]Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David, [46]who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. [47]But it was Solomon who built a house for him. [48]Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

[49]"'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? [50]Did not my hand make all these things?'

[51]"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. [52]Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, [53]you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."

[54]Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. [55]But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed 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]But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. [58]Then they cast him out 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, receive my spirit." [60]And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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