⁹ “This, then, is how you should pray:

¹¹ I say to you that many will come from the east and the west,^(A) and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.^(B)

⁵⁵ But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit,^(A) looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.^{(B) 56} “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open^(C) and the Son of Man^(D) 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^(E) and began to stone him.^(F) Meanwhile, the witnesses^(G) laid their coats^(H) at the feet of a young man named Saul.^(I)

⁵⁹ While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”^{(J) 60} Then he fell on his knees^(K) and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”^(L) When he had said this, he fell asleep.^(M)

⁸ We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^(A)

Awaiting the New Body

5 For we know that if the earthly^(A) tent^(B) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. ² Meanwhile we groan,^(C) longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^{(D) 3} because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴ For while we are in this tent, we groan^(E) and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^(F) so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

²¹ Who knows if the human spirit rises upward^(A) and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”