1. Then the high priest questioned Stephen. "Is what these people are saying true?" he asked.
2. "Brothers and fathers, listen to me!" Stephen replied. "The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham. At that time Abraham was still in Mesopotamia. He had not yet begun living in Haran.
3. 'Leave your country and your people,' God said. 'Go to the land I will show you.' (Genesis 12:1)
4. "So Abraham left the land of Babylonia. He settled in Haran. After his father died, God sent Abraham to this land where you are now living.
5. God didn't give him any property here. He didn't give him even a foot of land. But God made a promise to him and to all his family after him. He said they would possess the land. The promise was made even though at that time Abraham had no child.