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Acts 7
⁵³ who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it."
⁵⁴ 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, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
⁵⁶ and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
⁵⁷ Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;
⁵⁸ and they 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 as he was calling on God and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Acts 8
¹ Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
² And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
³ As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.