²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

¹² Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

⁷ But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

⁹ pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

¹⁶ Most assuredly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

²⁴ "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

¹² We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

¹ Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

² For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

³ He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him.

⁵² Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

⁵³ You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"

⁵⁴ Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

⁵⁶ and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

⁵⁷ But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

⁵⁸ They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁹ They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!"

⁶⁰ He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

²⁷ For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

²⁸ to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

²⁹ Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

³⁰ while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."

⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

³¹ Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

⁵⁹ Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.

⁵¹ Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

³² The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

¹⁶ For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

⁴⁰ A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

³⁴ and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

⁷ Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.