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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.7.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">&#8220;Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.7.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.7.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">who enjoyed God&#8217;s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:46 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">the house of Jacob</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.7.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">But it was Solomon who built a house for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.7.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.7.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">&#8220;However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.7.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.7.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Heaven is my throne,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.7.49"><span class="content">and the earth is my footstool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.7.49"><span class="content">What kind of house will you build for me?</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.7.49"><span class="content">says the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.7.49"><span class="content">Or where will my resting place be?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="ACT.7.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="ACT.7.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Has not my hand made all these things?&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:50 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 66:1,2</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="ACT.7.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="ACT.7.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">&#8220;You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="ACT.7.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="ACT.7.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Stoning of Stephen</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="ACT.7.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="ACT.7.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="ACT.7.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="ACT.7.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="ACT.7.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="ACT.7.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="ACT.7.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="ACT.7.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="ACT.7.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, &#8220;Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="ACT.7.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">Then he fell on his knees and cried out, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them.&#8221; When he had said this, he fell asleep.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Saul approved of their killing him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Church Persecuted and Scattered</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.8.1"><span class="content">On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.</span></span></div>
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