Acts 7:54-60

The Voice

⁵⁴ Upon hearing this, his audience could contain themselves no longer. They boiled in fury at Stephen; they clenched their jaws and ground their teeth. ⁵⁵ But Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit. Gazing upward into heaven, he saw something they couldn’t see: the glory of God, and Jesus standing at His right hand.

⁵⁷ At this, they covered their ears and started shouting. The whole crowd rushed at Stephen, converged on him, ⁵⁸ dragged him out of the city, and stoned him.

They laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul, ⁵⁹ while they were pelting Stephen with rocks.

⁶⁰ Then he knelt in prayer, shouting at the top of his lungs,

Those were his final words; then he fell asleep in death.