52 Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
53 You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels — yet you have not obeyed it!”
54 As the members of the Council listened to Stephen, they became furious and ground their teeth at him in anger.
55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at the right-hand side of God.
56 “Look!” he said. “I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right-hand side of God!”
57 With a loud cry the members of the Council covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once,
58 threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses left their cloaks in the care of a young man named Saul.