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Stephen Addresses the Sanhedrin
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
Stephen Addresses the Council
Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these accusations true?”
Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these accusations true?”
And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.
So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live.
And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
“But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole land would belong to Abraham and his descendants — even though he had no children yet.
And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;
God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I* judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
“God also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision at that time. So when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him on the eighth day. And the practice was continued when Isaac became the father of Jacob, and when Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs of the Israelite nation.
And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
“These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him
and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
and rescued him from all his troubles. And God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him governor over all of Egypt and put him in charge of the palace.
But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
“But a famine came upon Egypt and Canaan. There was great misery, and our ancestors ran out of food.
But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;
Jacob heard that there was still grain in Egypt, so he sent his sons — our ancestors — to buy some.
and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.
And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.
Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and all his relatives to come to Egypt, seventy-five persons in all.
And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,
So Jacob went to Egypt. He died there, as did our ancestors.
and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.
Their bodies were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb Abraham had bought for a certain price from Hamor’s sons in Shechem.
But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
“As the time drew near when God would fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt greatly increased.
until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.
But then a new king came to the throne of Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.
*He* dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.
This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so they would die.
In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.
“At that time Moses was born — a beautiful child in God’s eyes. His parents cared for him at home for three months.
And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.
When they had to abandon him, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and raised him as her own son.
And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
Moses was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in both speech and action.
And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;
“One day when Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his relatives, the people of Israel.
and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
He saw an Egyptian mistreating an Israelite. So Moses came to the man’s defense and avenged him, killing the Egyptian.
For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.
Moses assumed his fellow Israelites would realize that God had sent him to rescue them, but they didn’t.
And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?
“The next day he visited them again and saw two men of Israel fighting. He tried to be a peacemaker. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers. Why are you fighting each other?’
But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?
“But the man in the wrong pushed Moses aside. ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ he asked.
Dost *thou* wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
‘Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’
And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.
When Moses heard that, he fled the country and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There his two sons were born.
And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.
“Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush.
And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,
When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he went to take a closer look, the voice of the LORD called out to him,
*I* am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider [it].
‘I am the God of your ancestors — the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses shook with terror and did not dare to look.
And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.
“Then the LORD said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.
I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.
This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
“So God sent back the same man his people had previously rejected when they demanded, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ Through the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush, God sent Moses to be their ruler and savior.
*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years.
This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him shall ye hear].
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
“But our ancestors refused to listen to Moses. They rejected him and wanted to return to Egypt.
saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.
They told Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who can lead us, for we don’t know what has become of this Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made.
But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Then God turned away from them and abandoned them to serve the stars of heaven as their gods! In the book of the prophets it is written,
‘Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings
during those forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
‘Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings
during those forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.
Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;
which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;
Years later, when Joshua led our ancestors in battle against the nations that God drove out of this land, the Tabernacle was taken with them into their new territory. And it stayed there until the time of King David.
who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands; as says the prophet,
However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,
The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where [is the] place of my rest?
‘Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?’
asks the LORD.
‘Could you build me such a resting place?
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?’
asks the LORD.
‘Could you build me such a resting place?
O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!
Name one prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One — the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.
who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”
The Stoning of Stephen
And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily into heaven and saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
And he told them, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand!”
And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;
Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him
and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.
And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
As they stoned him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”