1The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
2He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God…
3and said to him, ‘Get out of your…
4Then he came out of the land of…
5He gave him no inheritance in it, no,…
6God spoke in this way: that his offspring…
7‘I will judge the nation to which they…
8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So…
9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold…
10and delivered him out of all his afflictions,…
11Now a famine came over all the land…
12But when Jacob heard that there was grain…
13On the second time Joseph was made known…
14Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and…
15Jacob went down into Egypt and he died,…
16and they were brought back to Shechem and…
17“But as the time of the promise came…
18until there arose a different king who didn’t…
19The same took advantage of our race and…
20At that time Moses was born, and was…
21When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him…
22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of…
23But when he was forty years old, it…
24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended…
25He supposed that his brothers understood that God,…
26“The day following, he appeared to them as…
27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed…
28Do you want to kill me as you…
29Moses fled at this saying, and became a…
30“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of…
31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the…
32‘I am the God of your fathers: the…
33The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your…
34I have surely seen the affliction of my…
35“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made…
36This man led them out, having worked wonders…
37This is that Moses who said to the…
38This is he who was in the assembly…
39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but…
40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will…
41They made a calf in those days, and…
42But God turned away and gave them up…
43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the…
44“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony…
45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought…
46who found favor in the sight of God,…
47But Solomon built him a house.
48However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples…
49‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a…
50Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,…
52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute?…
53You received the law as it was ordained…
54Now when they heard these things, they were…
55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit,…
56and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened…
57But they cried out with a loud voice…
58They threw him out of the city and…
59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying,…
60He kneeled down and cried with a loud…
