The crowd followed and kept shouting, “Kill him! Kill him!”
But the whole crowd shouted, “Kill Jesus! Give us Barabbas!”
“Kill him! Kill him!” they yelled. “Nail him to a cross!” “So you want me to nail your king to a cross?” Pilate asked. The chief priests replied, “The Emperor is our king!”
The crowd listened until Paul said this. Then they started shouting, “Get rid of this man! He doesn't deserve to live.”
When the council members heard Stephen's speech, they were angry and furious.
When someone curses us, we answer with kind words. Until now we are thought of as nothing more than the trash and rubbish of this world.