Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵⁵ and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

⁵⁶ and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

⁵⁷ And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,

⁵⁸ and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning [him] -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul --

⁵⁹ and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'

⁶⁰ and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

31 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age, In Thy righteousness deliver me.

² Incline unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

³ For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

⁴ Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou [art] my strength.

⁵ Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

¹⁵ In Thy hand [are] my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

¹⁶ Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

³ if so be ye did taste that the Lord [is] gracious,

⁴ to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

⁵ and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁶ Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'

⁷ to you, then, who are believing [is] the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

⁹ and ye [are] a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

¹⁰ who [were] once not a people, and [are] now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

14 `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

² in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

³ and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

⁴ and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'

⁵ Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'

⁶ Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

⁷ if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

⁸ Philip saith to him, `Sir, shew to us the Father, and it is enough for us;'

⁹ Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

¹⁰ Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;

¹¹ believe me, that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

¹² `Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;

¹³ and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;

¹⁴ if ye ask anything in my name I will do [it].