44. "Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.
45. And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.
46. David found favor in God's sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47. But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.
48. However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:
49. 'Heaven is My throne, And earth is the footstool of My feet; What kind of house will you build for Me?' says the Lord, 'Or what place is there for My repose?
50. 'Was it not My hand which made all these things?'
51. "You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
52. Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;
53. you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it."
54. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.