Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

⁹ Then some of those who were of the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and Cyrenians, and some from Alexandria and Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen. ¹⁰ But they could not resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke. ¹¹ Then they sent in men who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. ¹² And they moved the people and the elders and the scribes, and came upon him and caught him, and brought him to the council. ¹³ And they brought forth false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law, ¹⁴ for we heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the ordinances that Moses gave us.

¹⁵ And all who sat in the council looked steadfastly on him, and saw his face, as it were the face of an angel.

⁵¹ You stiff-necked people, and of uncircumcised hearts and ears! You have always resisted the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who told before of the coming of the Just One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered. ⁵³ And you also have received a law by the ordinance of angels, and have not kept it.

⁵⁴ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. ⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly with his eyes into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. ⁵⁶ And he said, Behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

⁵⁷ Then they gave a shout with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him all at once, ⁵⁸ and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, who was calling on the Lord and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit! ⁶⁰ And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge! And when he had thus spoken, he fell asleep.