But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.
But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.
This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, but when I had learned that he was a Roman, I came with the guard and rescued him.
When they heard these things, they became enraged and ground their teeth at Stephen.
“Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.