Acts 7
New King James Version
Stephen’s Address: The Call of Abraham
7 Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?”
2 And he said, (A)“Brethren and fathers, listen: The (B)God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in (C)Haran, 3 and said to him, (D)‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’ 4 Then (E)he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was (F)dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell. 5 And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, (G)He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him. 6 But God spoke in this way: (H)that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into (I)bondage and oppress them four hundred years. 7 (J)‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will (K)judge,’ said God, (L)‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’ 8 (M)Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; (N)and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; (O)and Isaac begot Jacob, and (P)Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.
The Patriarchs in Egypt
9 (Q)“And the patriarchs, becoming envious, (R)sold Joseph into Egypt. (S)But God was with him 10 and delivered him out of all his troubles, (T)and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 (U)Now a famine and great [a]trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 (V)But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. 13 And the (W)second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to the Pharaoh. 14 (X)Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and (Y)all his relatives to him, [b]seventy-five people. 15 (Z)So Jacob went down to Egypt; (AA)and he died, he and our fathers. 16 And (AB)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in (AC)the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.
God Delivers Israel by Moses
17 “But when (AD)the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, (AE)the people grew and multiplied in Egypt 18 till another king (AF)arose who did not know Joseph. 19 This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, (AG)making them expose their babies, so that they might not live. 20 (AH)At this time Moses was born, and (AI)was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months. 21 But (AJ)when he was set out, (AK)Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was (AL)mighty in words and deeds.
23 (AM)“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. 25 For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. 26 And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’ 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, (AN)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’ 29 (AO)Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he (AP)had two sons.
30 (AQ)“And when forty years had passed, an Angel [c]of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. 31 When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, 32 saying, (AR)‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look. 33 (AS)‘Then the Lord said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely (AT)seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will (AU)send you to Egypt.” ’
35 “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, (AV)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer (AW)by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 (AX)He brought them out, after he had (AY)shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, (AZ)and in the Red Sea, (BA)and in the wilderness forty years.
Israel Rebels Against God
37 “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, (BB)‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. (BC)Him[d] you shall hear.’
38 (BD)“This is he who was in the [e]congregation in the wilderness with (BE)the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, (BF)the one who received the living (BG)oracles[f] to give to us, 39 whom our fathers (BH)would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, 40 (BI)saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 41 (BJ)And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and (BK)rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42 Then (BL)God turned and gave them up to worship (BM)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
(BN)‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And (BO)I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
God’s True Tabernacle
44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses (BP)to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, 45 (BQ)which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, (BR)whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the (BS)days of David, 46 (BT)who found favor before God and (BU)asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob. 47 (BV)But Solomon built Him a house.
48 “However, (BW)the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
49 ‘Heaven(BX) is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,
Or what is the place of My rest?
50 Has My hand not (BY)made all these things?’
Israel Resists the Holy Spirit
51 “You (BZ)stiff-necked[g] and (CA)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 (CB)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (CC)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 (CD)who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”
Stephen the Martyr
54 (CE)When they heard these things they were [h]cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, (CF)being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the (CG)glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, “Look! (CH)I see the heavens opened and the (CI)Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And (CJ)the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, (CK)receive my spirit.” 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, (CL)“Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Apostelgeschichte 7
Schlachter 2000
Das Zeugnis des Stephanus vor dem Hohen Rat
7 Da sprach der Hohepriester: Verhält sich denn dies so?
2 Er aber sprach: Ihr Männer, Brüder und Väter, hört! Der Gott der Herrlichkeit erschien unserem Vater Abraham, als er in Mesopotamien war, bevor er in Haran wohnte,
3 und sprach zu ihm: »Geh hinaus aus deinem Land und aus deiner Verwandtschaft und zieh in das Land, das ich dir zeigen werde!«[a]
4 Da ging er aus dem Land der Chaldäer und wohnte in Haran. Und nach dem Tod seines Vaters führte er ihn von dort herüber in dieses Land, das ihr jetzt bewohnt.
5 Und er gab ihm kein Erbteil darin, auch nicht einen Fußbreit, und verhieß, es ihm zum Eigentum zu geben und seinem Samen[b] nach ihm, obwohl er kein Kind hatte.
6 Gott sprach aber so: »Sein Same wird ein Fremdling sein in einem fremden Land, und man wird ihn knechten und übel behandeln 400 Jahre lang.
7 Und das Volk, dem sie als Knechte dienen sollen, will ich richten«, sprach Gott; »und danach werden sie ausziehen und mir dienen an diesem Ort.«[c]
8 Und er gab ihm den Bund der Beschneidung. Und so zeugte er den Isaak und beschnitt ihn am achten Tag, und Isaak den Jakob, und Jakob die zwölf Patriarchen.
9 Und die Patriarchen waren neidisch auf Joseph und verkauften ihn nach Ägypten. Doch Gott war mit ihm,
10 und er rettete ihn aus allen seinen Bedrängnissen und gab ihm Gnade und Weisheit vor dem Pharao, dem König von Ägypten; der setzte ihn zum Fürsten über Ägypten und sein ganzes Haus.
11 Es kam aber eine Hungersnot über das ganze Land Ägypten und Kanaan und große Drangsal, und unsere Väter fanden keine Speise.
12 Als aber Jakob hörte, dass Korn in Ägypten zu haben sei, sandte er unsere Väter zum ersten Mal aus.
13 Und beim zweiten Mal gab sich Joseph seinen Brüdern zu erkennen, und die Abstammung Josephs wurde dem Pharao bekannt.
14 Da sandte Joseph hin und berief seinen Vater Jakob zu sich und seine ganze Verwandtschaft von 75 Seelen.
15 Jakob aber zog nach Ägypten hinab und starb, er und unsere Väter.
16 Und sie wurden herübergebracht nach Sichem und in das Grab gelegt, das Abraham um eine Summe Geld von den Söhnen Hemors, des Vaters Sichems, gekauft hatte.
17 Als aber die Zeit der Verheißung nahte, welche Gott dem Abraham mit einem Eid zugesagt hatte, wuchs das Volk und mehrte sich in Ägypten,
18 bis ein anderer König aufkam, der Joseph nicht kannte.
19 Dieser handelte arglistig gegen unser Geschlecht und zwang unsere Väter, ihre Kinder auszusetzen, damit sie nicht am Leben blieben.
20 In dieser Zeit wurde Mose geboren; der war Gott angenehm; und er wurde drei Monate lang im Haus seines Vaters ernährt.
21 Als er aber ausgesetzt wurde, nahm ihn die Tochter des Pharao zu sich und erzog ihn als ihren Sohn.
22 Und Mose wurde in aller Weisheit der Ägypter unterrichtet und war mächtig in Worten und in Werken.
23 Als er aber 40 Jahre alt geworden war, stieg der Gedanke in ihm auf, nach seinen Brüdern, den Söhnen Israels, zu sehen.
24 Und als er einen Unrecht leiden sah, wehrte er es ab und schaffte dem Unterdrückten Recht, indem er den Ägypter erschlug.
25 Er meinte aber, seine Brüder würden es verstehen, dass Gott ihnen durch seine Hand Rettung gebe; aber sie verstanden es nicht.
26 Und am folgenden Tag erschien er bei ihnen, als sie miteinander stritten, und ermahnte sie zum Frieden und sprach: Ihr Männer, ihr seid doch Brüder; warum tut ihr einander Unrecht?
27 Der aber, welcher seinem Nächsten Unrecht tat, stieß ihn weg und sprach: Wer hat dich zum Obersten und Richter über uns gesetzt?
28 Willst du mich etwa töten, wie du gestern den Ägypter getötet hast?
29 Da floh Mose auf dieses Wort hin und wurde ein Fremdling im Land Midian, wo er zwei Söhne zeugte.
30 Und als 40 Jahre erfüllt waren, erschien ihm in der Wüste des Berges Sinai der Engel des Herrn in der Feuerflamme eines Busches.
31 Als Mose das sah, verwunderte er sich über die Erscheinung. Als er aber hinzutrat, um sie zu betrachten, erging die Stimme des Herrn an ihn:
32 »Ich bin der Gott deiner Väter, der Gott Abrahams und der Gott Isaaks und der Gott Jakobs!«[d] Mose aber zitterte und wagte nicht hinzuschauen.
33 Da sprach der Herr zu ihm: »Ziehe deine Schuhe aus von deinen Füßen! Denn der Ort, wo du stehst, ist heiliges Land!
34 Ich habe die Misshandlung meines Volkes, das in Ägypten ist, sehr wohl gesehen und habe ihr Seufzen gehört und bin herabgekommen, um sie herauszuführen. Und nun komm, ich will dich nach Ägypten senden!«[e]
35 Diesen Mose, den sie verwarfen, indem sie sprachen: Wer hat dich zum Obersten und Richter eingesetzt? — diesen sandte Gott als Obersten und Erlöser durch die Hand des Engels, der ihm im Busch erschienen war.
36 Dieser führte sie heraus, indem er Wunder und Zeichen tat im Land Ägypten und am Roten Meer und in der Wüste, 40 Jahre lang.
37 Das ist der Mose, der zu den Söhnen Israels gesagt hat: »Einen Propheten wie mich wird euch der Herr, euer Gott, erwecken aus euren Brüdern; auf ihn sollt ihr hören!«[f]
38 Das ist der, welcher in der Gemeinde in der Wüste war zwischen dem Engel, der auf dem Berg Sinai zu ihm redete, und unseren Vätern; der lebendige Worte empfing, um sie uns zu geben;
39 dem unsere Väter nicht gehorsam sein wollten; sondern sie stießen ihn von sich und wandten sich mit ihren Herzen nach Ägypten,
40 indem sie zu Aaron sprachen: Mache uns Götter, die vor uns herziehen sollen; denn wir wissen nicht, was diesem Mose geschehen ist, der uns aus Ägypten geführt hat!
41 Und sie machten ein Kalb in jenen Tagen und brachten dem Götzen ein Opfer und freuten sich an den Werken ihrer Hände.
42 Da wandte sich Gott ab und gab sie dahin, sodass sie dem Heer des Himmels[g] dienten, wie im Buch der Propheten geschrieben steht: »Habt ihr etwa mir Schlachtopfer und [Speis]opfer dargebracht [während der] 40 Jahre in der Wüste, Haus Israel?
43 Ihr habt die Hütte des Moloch[h] und das Sternbild eures Gottes Remphan umhergetragen, die Bilder, die ihr gemacht habt, um sie anzubeten. Und ich werde euch wegführen über Babylon hinaus.«[i]
44 Das Zelt des Zeugnisses[j] war in der Mitte unserer Väter in der Wüste, so wie der, welcher mit Mose redete, es zu machen befahl nach dem Vorbild, das er gesehen hatte.
45 Dieses brachten auch unsere Väter, wie sie es empfangen hatten, mit Josua [in das Land], als sie es von den Heiden in Besitz nahmen, die Gott vor dem Angesicht unserer Väter vertrieb, bis zu den Tagen Davids.
46 Dieser fand Gnade vor Gott und bat, ob er für den Gott Jakobs eine Wohnung finden dürfe.
47 Salomo aber erbaute ihm ein Haus.
48 Doch der Höchste wohnt nicht in Tempeln, die von Händen gemacht sind, wie der Prophet spricht:
49 »Der Himmel ist mein Thron und die Erde der Schemel für meine Füße. Was für ein Haus wollt ihr mir bauen, spricht der Herr, oder wo ist der Ort, an dem ich ruhen soll?
50 Hat nicht meine Hand das alles gemacht?«[k] —
51 Ihr Halsstarrigen und Unbeschnittenen an Herz und Ohren! Ihr widerstrebt allezeit dem Heiligen Geist; wie eure Väter, so auch ihr!
52 Welchen Propheten haben eure Väter nicht verfolgt? Und sie haben die getötet, die vorher das Kommen des Gerechten ankündigten, dessen Verräter und Mörder ihr nun geworden seid
53 — ihr, die ihr das Gesetz auf Anordnung von Engeln empfangen und es nicht gehalten habt!
Die Steinigung des Stephanus
54 Als sie aber das hörten, schnitt es ihnen ins Herz, und sie knirschten mit den Zähnen über ihn.
55 Er aber, voll Heiligen Geistes, blickte zum Himmel empor und sah die Herrlichkeit Gottes, und Jesus zur Rechten Gottes stehen;
56 und er sprach: Siehe, ich sehe den Himmel offen und den Sohn des Menschen zur Rechten Gottes stehen!
57 Sie aber schrien mit lauter Stimme, hielten sich die Ohren zu und stürmten einmütig auf ihn los;
58 und als sie ihn zur Stadt hinausgestoßen hatten, steinigten sie ihn. Und die Zeugen legten ihre Kleider zu den Füßen eines jungen Mannes nieder, der Saulus hieß.
59 Und sie steinigten den Stephanus, der betete und sprach: Herr Jesus, nimm meinen Geist auf!
60 Und er kniete nieder und rief mit lauter Stimme: Herr, rechne ihnen diese Sünde nicht an! Und nachdem er das gesagt hatte, entschlief er.
Footnotes
- (7,3) vgl. 1Mo 12,1.
- (7,5) d.h. seinem Nachkommen.
- (7,7) 1Mo 15,13-14.
- (7,32) 2Mo 3,6.
- (7,34) 2Mo 3,5-10.
- (7,37) 5Mo 18,15.
- (7,42) »Heer des Himmels« bezeichnet die Sterngottheiten, denen die Heiden Anbetung darbrachten.
- (7,43) ein heidnischer Götze, dem u.a. Kinder geopfert wurden.
- (7,43) Am 5,25-27.
- (7,44) Bezeichnung für das Zelt der Zusammenkunft, die Stiftshütte.
- (7,50) Jes 66,1-2.
Acts 7
New International Version
Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin
7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers,(A) listen to me! The God of glory(B) appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.(C) 3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a](D)
4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.(E) 5 He gave him no inheritance here,(F) not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land,(G) even though at that time Abraham had no child. 6 God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.(H) 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[b](I) 8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.(J) And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth.(K) Later Isaac became the father of Jacob,(L) and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.(M)
9 “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph,(N) they sold him as a slave into Egypt.(O) But God was with him(P) 10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.(Q)
11 “Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.(R) 12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit.(S) 13 On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was,(T) and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family.(U) 14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family,(V) seventy-five in all.(W) 15 Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.(X) 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.(Y)
17 “As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.(Z) 18 Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’[c](AA) 19 He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.(AB)
20 “At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.[d] For three months he was cared for by his family.(AC) 21 When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.(AD) 22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians(AE) and was powerful in speech and action.
23 “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. 26 The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’
27 “But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?(AF) 28 Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’[e] 29 When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.(AG)
30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. 31 When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say:(AH) 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers,(AI) the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’[f] Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.(AJ)
33 “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.(AK) 34 I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’[g](AL)
35 “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’(AM) He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 He led them out of Egypt(AN) and performed wonders and signs(AO) in Egypt, at the Red Sea(AP) and for forty years in the wilderness.(AQ)
37 “This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’[h](AR) 38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel(AS) who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors;(AT) and he received living words(AU) to pass on to us.(AV)
39 “But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.(AW) 40 They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’[i](AX) 41 That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made.(AY) 42 But God turned away from them(AZ) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.(BA) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:
“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[j](BB) beyond Babylon.
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law(BC) with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.(BD) 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them.(BE) It remained in the land until the time of David,(BF) 46 who enjoyed God’s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.[k](BG) 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.(BH)
48 “However, the Most High(BI) does not live in houses made by human hands.(BJ) As the prophet says:
49 “‘Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.(BK)
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?’[l](BL)
51 “You stiff-necked people!(BM) Your hearts(BN) and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52 Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute?(BO) They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him(BP)— 53 you who have received the law that was given through angels(BQ) but have not obeyed it.”
The Stoning of Stephen
54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious(BR) and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit,(BS) looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.(BT) 56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open(BU) and the Son of Man(BV) standing at the right hand of God.”
57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city(BW) and began to stone him.(BX) Meanwhile, the witnesses(BY) laid their coats(BZ) at the feet of a young man named Saul.(CA)
59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”(CB) 60 Then he fell on his knees(CC) and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”(CD) When he had said this, he fell asleep.(CE)
Footnotes
- Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1
- Acts 7:7 Gen. 15:13,14
- Acts 7:18 Exodus 1:8
- Acts 7:20 Or was fair in the sight of God
- Acts 7:28 Exodus 2:14
- Acts 7:32 Exodus 3:6
- Acts 7:34 Exodus 3:5,7,8,10
- Acts 7:37 Deut. 18:15
- Acts 7:40 Exodus 32:1
- Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)
- Acts 7:46 Some early manuscripts the house of Jacob
- Acts 7:50 Isaiah 66:1,2
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