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1 The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and
come into a land which I will show you.’ 4 Then he came out of the land of
the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God
moved him into this land, where you
9 “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into
Egypt. God was with him, 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions,
and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him
governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 Now a famine came over all the
land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our
fathers the first time. 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his
brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh. 14 Joseph sent, and
summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that
Abraham bought for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.
17 “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 until there arose a
different king, who didn’t know Joseph. 19 The same took advantage of our
race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies,
so that they wouldn’t stay alive. 20 At that time Moses was born, and was
exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him
as her own son. 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. 23 But when he was forty
years old, it came into his heart to visit his
26 “The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them
to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you
30 “When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him
in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When
Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of
the Lord came to him, 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared
not look. 33 The Lord said to him, ‘Take your sandals off of your feet,
for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the
affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I
have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
35 “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a
judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the
angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out, having
worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for
forty years. 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel,
‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers,
like me.
‘Did you
43 You
The figures which you
44 “Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as
he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that
he had seen; 45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with
Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove
out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, 46 who found
favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of
Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him a house. 48 However, the Most High
doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
49 ‘heaven is my throne,
What kind of house will you
50 Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
51 “You
54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit,
looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God, 56 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens
opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and
rushed at him with one accord. 58 They threw him out of the city, and
stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man
named Saul. 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus,
receive my Spirit!” 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,
“Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell
asleep.
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