⁵¹“You stiff-necked people and uncircumcised in hearts and in your^* ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so also do you! ⁵²Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become, ⁵³you who received the law by directions of angels and have not observed it!”

Stephen’s Martyrdom

⁵⁴Now when they^* heard these things, they were infuriated in their hearts and gnashed their^* teeth at him. ⁵⁵But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and^* saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” ⁵⁷But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose. ⁵⁸And after they^* had driven him^* out of the city, they began to stone^* him,^* and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹And they kept on stoning Stephen as he^* was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” ⁶⁰And falling to his^* knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” And after he^* said this, he fell asleep.^c

Saul Attempts to Destroy the Church

8And Saul was agreeing with his murder. Now there happened on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

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Footnotes

*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“looked intently”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had driven”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began stoning”)
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was calling out”) which is understood as temporal
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“said”) which is understood as temporal
cOr “he passed away”