Acts 7:59
They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed,“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
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- Ps 31:5 : 5 Into your hand I entrust my life; you will rescue me, O LORD, the faithful God.
- Luke 23:46 : 46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said,“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.
- Acts 9:14 : 14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”
- Acts 9:21 : 21 All who heard him were amazed and were saying,“Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
- Acts 22:16 : 16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’
- Rom 10:12-14 : 12 For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him. 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?
- 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
- Acts 2:21 : 21 And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Joel 2:32 : 32 It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the LORD has promised; the remnant will be those whom the LORD will call.
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60Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice,“Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.
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54Stephen is Killed When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.
55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
56“Look!” he said.“I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.
58When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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1And Saul agreed completely with killing him. Saul Begins to Persecute the ChurchNow on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
2Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
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18and saw the Lord saying to me,‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’
19I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.
20And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
21Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
22The Roman Commander Questions Paul The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted,“Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”
23While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,
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7Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8I answered,‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me,‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’
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4He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
5So he said,“Who are you, Lord?” He replied,“I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!
6But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”
7(Now the men who were traveling with him stood there speechless, because they heard the voice but saw no one.)
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46Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said,“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.
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5When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,
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8Stephen is Arrested Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.
9But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen(as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.
10Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
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19But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.
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14When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’
15So I said,‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied,‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
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31The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
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17Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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15These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.
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37But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.
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6They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed and placed their hands on them.
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41He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,
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9After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.
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1The Conversion of Saul Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest
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29He was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to kill him.
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21They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple.
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12They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.
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24But Simon replied,“You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”
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14and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”
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50Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.
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59Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.
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6So the young men came, wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.
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24When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said,“Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,
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39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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14Peter’s Address on the Day of Pentecost But Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them:“You men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this and listen carefully to what I say.
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11Then the Lord told him,“Get up and go to the street called‘Straight,’ and at Judas’ house look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. For he is praying,
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29And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,
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37The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?”