46. He won God's favour and asked God to allow him to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47. But it was Solomon who built him a house.
48. “But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says:
49. ‘Heaven is my throne, says the Lord,and the earth is my footstool.What kind of house would you build for me?Where is the place for me to live in?
50. Did not I myself make all these things?’
51. “How stubborn you are!” Stephen went on to say. “How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!