e out before our fathers, unto the days of David; (46)who
found favor before God, and asked that he might find a habitation for
the God of Jacob. (47)But Solomon built a house for him. (48)Yet the
Most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as says the prophet:

(49)Heaven is my throne,
And the earth is my footstool.
What house will ye build for me, saith the Lord;
Or what is my place of rest?
(50)Did not my hand make all these things?

(51)Stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! Ye always
resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye. (52)Which of
the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those who
announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One; of whom ye
have now become the betrayers and murderers; (53)who received the law
as the ordinances of angels, and kept it not.

(54)Hearing these things, they were enraged in their hearts, and
gnashed their teeth against him. (55)But, being full of the Holy
Spirit, he looked intently into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and
Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said: (56)Behold, I see
the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of
God. (57)And crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears,
and rushed upon him with one accord; (58)and having cast him out of
the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid off their garments
at the feet of a young man named Saul, (59)and stoned Stephen, calling
and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (60)And kneeling down, he
cried with a loud voice: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And
saying this, he fell asleep.

VIII.

AND Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day there arose a
great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and all
were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria,
except the apostles. (2)And devout men carried Stephen to his burial,
and made great lamentation over him. (3)But Saul laid waste the
church, entering house after house, and dragging both men and women,
committed them to prison.

(4)They, therefore, that were scattered, went abroad, preaching the
word. (5)And Philip went down to the city[8:5] of Samaria, and
preached to them the Christ. (6)And the multitudes with one accord
gave heed to the things said by Philip, when they heard, and saw the
signs which he wrought. (7)For out of many who had unclean spirits
they went forth, crying with loud vo