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Acts 7:57

God's Word

But the council members shouted and refused to listen. Then they rushed at Stephen with one purpose in mind,

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They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears

Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will call and not be answered.

“But people refused to pay attention. They shrugged their shoulders at me and shut their ears so that they couldn’t hear.

The Jews had seized this man and were going to murder him. When I found out that he was a Roman citizen, I went with my soldiers to rescue him.

As council members listened to Stephen, they became noticeably furious.

So Stephen said, “Look, I see heaven opened and the Son of Man in the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the throne!”

and after they had thrown him out of the city, they began to stone him to death. The witnesses left their coats with a young man named Saul.