Acts 7:59
They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
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- Ps 31:5 : 5 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
- Luke 23:46 : 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
- Acts 9:14 : 14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
- Acts 9:21 : 21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"
- Acts 22:16 : 16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
- Rom 10:12-14 : 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
- 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
- Acts 2:21 : 21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
- Joel 2:32 : 32 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
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60He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
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54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
57But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.
58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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1Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
2Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
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18and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'
19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'
21"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
22They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
23As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
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7I 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 of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'
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4He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
6But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
7The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.
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46Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
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5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 6:8-103 verses68%
8Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
9But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
10They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
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19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- Acts 26:14-152 verses68%
14When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
15"I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
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31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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17Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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15who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
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37Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
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6whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
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41He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed,
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9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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1But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
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29preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
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21They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
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12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
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24Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me."
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14Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
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50Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
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59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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6The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
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24When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
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39So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
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11The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
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29Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
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37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"