Acts 7:1–4

Stephen’s Defense Before the Council

7:1 Then the high priest said, “Are these things true?”1 7:2 So he replied,2 “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather3 Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, 7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’4 7:4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God5 made him move6 to this country where you now live.

1	tn Grk “If it is so concerning these things” (see BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.a for this use).
2	tn Grk “said.”
3	tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”
4	sn A quotation from Gen 12:1.
5	tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6	tn The translation “made him move” for the verb μετοικίζω (metoikizō) is given by L&N 85.83. The verb has the idea of “resettling” someone (BDAG 643 s.v.); see v. 43, where it reappears.