Acts 7:51–55

RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRIT

51 “You stiff-neckedu people with uncircumcised hearts and ears!v You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?w They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderersx you have now become. 53 You received the law under the direction of angelsy and yet have not kept it.”

THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR

54 When they heard these things, they were enragedD and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.z