44. “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, telling Moses to make it as He had commanded, according to the pattern that he had seen,
45. which our fathers, having received it, brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out in front of our fathers until the days of David,
46. who found favor in the presence of God and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47. But Solomon built Him a house.
48. “However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands. As the prophet says:
49. ‘Heaven is My throne,and the earth is My footstool.What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,or what is the place of My rest?
50. Has not My hand made all these things?’
51. “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
52. Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
53. who have received the law by the disposition of angels, but have not kept it.”
54. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
55. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he 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, closed their ears, and rushed at him in unison.
58. And they threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59. They stoned Stephen as he was calling on God, praying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
60. Then he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” Having said this, he fell asleep.