(41)And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. (42)And God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets: Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? (43)And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Remphan, The figures which ye made to worship them; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon. (44)Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, as he who spoke to Moses commanded, that he should make it according to the pattern that he had seen; (45)which also our fathers received, and brought in with Joshua into the possession of the heathen, whom God drove 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.