Acts of the Apostles

Stephen death
54When they heard this reproach, they were enraged and they gnashed their teeth against Stephen. 55But he, full of the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes on heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus at God’s right hand, 56so he declared: 
—I see the heavens open and the Son of Man at the right hand of God.
57But they shouted and covered their ears with their hands and rushed together upon him. 58They brought him out of the city and stoned him, and the witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59As they were stoning him, Stephen prayed saying: 
—Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 
60Then he knelt down and said in a loud voice: 
—Lord, do not hold this sin against them. 
And when he had said this, he died

8 1Saul was there, approving his murder.

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