42. But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?
43. And you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made, to worship them, and I will deport you beyond Babylon!’
44. The tabernacle of the testimony belonged to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the design that he had seen,
45. and which, after receiving it in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David,
46. who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
47. But Solomon built a house for him.
48. But the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, just as the prophet says,
49. ‘Heaven is my throne and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
50. Did not my hand make all these things?’
51. “You stiff-necked people and uncircumcised in hearts and in your ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so also do you!
52. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,
53. you who received the law by directions of angels and have not observed it!”
54. Now when they heard these things, they were infuriated in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.
55. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
56. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57. But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose.
58. And after they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59. And they kept on stoning Stephen as he was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
60. And falling to his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” And after he said this, he fell asleep.