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They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>you who received the law as ordained by angels, and <i>yet</i> did not keep it. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i> Stephen Put to Death</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they <i>began</i> gnashing their teeth at him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>and he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-58.htm" target="_top"><b>58</b></a></span>When they had driven him out of the city, they <i>began</i> stoning <i>him;</i> and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-59.htm" target="_top"><b>59</b></a></span>They went on stoning Stephen as he called on <i>the Lord</i> and said, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit! <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/7-60.htm" target="_top"><b>60</b></a></span>Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not hold this sin against them! Having said this, he fell asleep. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/acts/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as saith the prophet,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/acts/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/acts/7.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />But the Most High dwells not in places made with hands; as says the prophet,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/acts/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as saith the prophet,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/acts/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yet, the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/7.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Yet the Most High does not dwell in buildings erected by men's hands. But, as the Prophet declares,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/acts/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/acts/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/stephens_vision.htm">Stephen's vision</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God'--ACTS vii. 56. I. The vision of the Son of Man, or the abiding manhood of Jesus. Stephen's Greek name, and his belonging to the Hellenistic part of the Church, make it probable that he had never seen Jesus during His earthly life. If so, how beautiful that he should thus see and recognise Him! How significant, in any case, is it he should instinctively have taken on his lips that name, 'the Son of Man,' to designate <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/stephens_vision.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_young_saul_and_the.htm">The Young Saul and the Aged Paul [Footnote: to the Young. ]</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'...the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.'--ACTS vii. 58. '...Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.' --PHILEMON 9. A far greater difference than that which was measured by years separated the young Saul from the aged Paul. By years, indeed, the difference was, perhaps, not so great as the words might suggest, for Jewish usage extended the term of youth farther than we do, and began age sooner. No doubt, too, Paul's life had aged him fast, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_young_saul_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_death_of_the_master.htm">The Death of the Master and the Death of the Servant</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And, when he had said this, he fell asleep.'--ACTS vii. 59, 60. This is the only narrative in the New Testament of a Christian martyrdom or death. As a rule, Scripture is supremely indifferent to what becomes of the people with whom it is for a time concerned. As long as the man is the organ of the divine Spirit he is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_death_of_the_master.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schleiermacher/selected_sermons_of_schleiermacher/xxiii_the_prayer_of_stephen.htm">The Prayer of Stephen. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Fifth Sunday after Trinity, 1832.) TEXT: ACTS vii. 60. "And Stephen kneeled down and cried with, a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." FREE and unrestricted as we are in our church as to our choice of subjects for meditation from the treasuries of the divine Word, many of you may still perhaps wonder why I have selected this passage. For you are aware that I have often lately taken occasion to express the opinion that the state of things <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schleiermacher/selected_sermons_of_schleiermacher/xxiii_the_prayer_of_stephen.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Friedrich Schleiermacher—</span><span class="citation2">Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cxlv_our_lord_appears_after.htm">Our Lord Appears after his Ascension. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">^F I. Cor. XV. 8. ^f 8 and last of all, as to the child untimely born, he appeared to me also. [Since Paul reckons this among the bodily appearances of our Lord, we have included it in our work; but it borders upon those spiritual appearances which belong rather to apostolic history and may be classed with the vision of Stephen (Acts vii. 55) and John (Rev. i. 9-17), to which it was near kin. Accounts of the appearance will be found in the ninth, twenty-second and twenty-sixth chapters of Acts. For <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cxlv_our_lord_appears_after.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/coleridge/confessions_of_an_inquiring_spirit_etc/letter_iv_you_reply_to.htm">Letter iv. You Reply to the Conclusion of My Letter: "What have we to do with Routiniers?...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">My dear friend, You reply to the conclusion of my Letter: "What have we to do with routiniers? Quid mihi cum homunculis putata putide reputantibus? Let nothings count for nothing, and the dead bury the dead! Who but such ever understood the tenet in this sense?" In what sense then, I rejoin, do others understand it? If, with exception of the passages already excepted, namely, the recorded words of God--concerning which no Christian can have doubt or scruple,--the tenet in this sense be inapplicable <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/coleridge/confessions_of_an_inquiring_spirit_etc/letter_iv_you_reply_to.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Samuel Taylor Coleridge—</span><span class="citation2">Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/lyra_germanica_the_christian_year/st_stephens_day_and_stephen.htm">St. Stephen's Day and Stephen, Full of Faith and Power, did Great Wonders and Miracles among the People. . . . Then they Stirred up the People. . . . And Caught Him, and Set up False Witnesses against Him. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. . . . Then they stirred up the people. . . . and caught him, and set up false witnesses against him. Verzage nicht du Haüflein klein [52]Altenburg Gustavus Adolphus' Battle-song. 1631. trans. by Catherine Winkworth, 1855 Fear not, O little flock, the foe Who madly seeks your overthrow, Dread not his rage and power: What though your courage sometimes faints, His seeming triumph o'er God's saints Lasts but <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/lyra_germanica_the_christian_year/st_stephens_day_and_stephen.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Catherine Winkworth—</span><span class="citation2">Lyra Germanica: The Christian Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_120_the_death_of.htm">The Death of Stephen. Acts 7:54-60</a><br></span><span class="snippet"> <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_120_the_death_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Olney Hymns</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_in_christ_there_was_4.htm">Whether in Christ There was the Gift of Prophecy?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that in Christ there was not the gift of prophecy. For prophecy implies a certain obscure and imperfect knowledge, according to Num. 12:6: "If there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream." But Christ had full and unveiled knowledge, much more than Moses, of whom it is subjoined that "plainly and not by riddles and figures doth he see God" (Num. 6:8). Therefore we ought not to admit prophecy in Christ. Objection <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_in_christ_there_was_4.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_those_who_are_not.htm">Whether those who are not Practiced in Keeping the Commandments Should Enter Religion?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that none should enter religion but those who are practiced in the observance of the commandments. For our Lord gave the counsel of perfection to the young man who said that he had kept the commandments "from his youth." Now all religious orders originate from Christ. Therefore it would seem that none should be allowed to enter religion but those who are practiced in the observance of the commandments. Objection 2: Further, Gregory says (Hom. xv in Ezech., and Moral. xxii): <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_those_who_are_not.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_old_law_was_3.htm">Whether the Old Law was Given through the Angels?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It seems that the Old Law was not given through the angels, but immediately by God. For an angel means a "messenger"; so that the word "angel" denotes ministry, not lordship, according to Ps. 102:20,21: "Bless the Lord, all ye His Angels . . . you ministers of His." But the Old Law is related to have been given by the Lord: for it is written (Ex. 20:1): "And the Lord spoke . . . these words," and further on: "I am the Lord Thy God." Moreover the same expression is often repeated in Exodus, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_old_law_was_3.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/acts/7-48.htm">Acts 7:48 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../acts/7-47.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 7:47"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 7:47" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../acts/7-49.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 7:49"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 7:49" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/acts/7-48.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>