^{51 Ref} Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

^{52 Ref} Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

^{53 Ref} ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

^{54 Ref} Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

^{55 Ref} But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

^{56 Ref} and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

^{57 Ref} But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

^{58 Ref} and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

^{59 Ref} And they stoned Stephen, calling upon `the Lord', and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

^{60 Ref} And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.