Acts 7:44-54

44 "Our fathers had 1the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it 2according to the pattern which he had seen.
45 "And having received it in their turn, our fathers 3brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before * our fathers, until the time of David.
46 "4David found favor in God's sight, and 5asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47 "But it was 6Solomon who built a house for Him.
48 "However, 7the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:
49 '8HEAVEN 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 '9WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'
51 "You men who are 10stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
52 "11Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of 12the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers 13you have now become;
53 you who received the law as 14ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it."

Stephen Put to Death

54 Now when they heard this, they were 15cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.

Cross References 15

  • 1. Exodus 25:8, 9; Exodus 38:21
  • 2. Exodus 25:40
  • 3. Deuteronomy 32:49; Joshua 3:14f; Joshua 18:1; Joshua 23:9; Joshua 24:18; Psalms 44:2
  • 4. 2 Samuel 7:8f; Psalms 132:1-5; Acts 13:22
  • 5. 2 Samuel 7:1-16; 1 Chronicles 17:1-14
  • 6. 1 Kings 6:1-38; 1 Kings 8:20; 2 Chronicles 3:1-17
  • 7. Luke 1:32
  • 8. Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 5:34
  • 9. Isaiah 66:2
  • 10. Exodus 32:9; Exodus 33:3, 5; Leviticus 26:41; Numbers 27:14; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah 6:10; Jeremiah 9:26
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 36:15; Matthew 5:12; Matthew 23:31, 37
  • 12. Acts 3:14; Acts 22:14; 1 John 2:1
  • 13. Acts 3:14; Acts 5:28
  • 14. Deuteronomy 33:2; Acts 7:38; Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 2:2
  • 15. Acts 5:33

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Gr "Jesus"
  • [b]. Or "Gentiles"
  • [c]. The earliest mss read "house" instead of "God;" the Septuagint reads "God"
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