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Acts 7

Stephen answers the council by retelling Israel’s history from Abraham through Joseph, Moses, the wilderness, the tabernacle, and Solomon. His defense emphasizes that God was active beyond one land or building and that Israel repeatedly rejected divinely sent deliverers. Stephen accuses his hearers of resisting the Holy Ghost and betraying the Just One. Seeing Jesus standing at God’s right hand, he is stoned while Saul watches.

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Stephen answers the council by retelling Israel’s history from Abraham through Joseph, Moses, the wilderness, the tabernacle, and Solomon. His defense emphasizes that God was active beyond one land or building and that Israel repeatedly rejected divinely sent deliverers. Stephen accuses his hearers of resisting the Holy Ghost and betraying the Just One. Seeing Jesus standing at God’s right hand, he is stoned while Saul watches.

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Verses 1–16Stephen reviews God’s dealings with Abraham, Joseph, and Israel in EgyptVerses 17–36Stephen recounts Moses’ calling and Israel’s deliverance from EgyptVerses 37–50Stephen shows Israel’s resistance to Moses, idolatry, and misunderstanding of God’s dwellingVerses 51–60Stephen rebukes their resistance to the Holy Ghost, sees Jesus standing in heaven, and is stoned
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1Then said the high priest, Are these things so?2And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God…3And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country,…4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans,…5And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not…6And God spake on this wise, That his seed should…7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage…8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so…9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt:…10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave…11Now there came a dearth over all the land of…12But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,…13And at the second time Joseph was made known to…14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him,…15So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and…16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the…17But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which…18Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.19The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated…20In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair,…21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him…22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the…23And when he was full forty years old, it came…24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him,…25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that…26And the next day he shewed himself unto them as…27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away,…28Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger…30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him…31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and…32Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God…33Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes…34I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my…35This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a…36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders…37This is that Moses, which said unto the children of…38This is he, that was in the church in the…39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him…40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us:…41And they made a calf in those days, and offered…42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the…43Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the…44Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,…45Which also our fathers that came after brought in with…46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a…47But Solomon built him an house.48Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with…49Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what…50Hath not my hand made all these things?51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do…52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and…53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels,…54When they heard these things, they were cut to the…55But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up…56And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the…57Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped…58And cast him out of the city, and stoned him:…59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord…60And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,…