The Stoning of Stephen (ACT 7:54-8:1)

[7:54] As the members of the Council listened to Stephen, they became furious and ground their teeth at him in anger.

[7:55] But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at the right side of God.

[7:56] “Look!” he said. “I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God!”

[7:57] With a loud cry the Council members covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once,

[7:58] threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses left their cloaks in the care of a young man named Saul.

[7:59] They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

[7:60] He knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord! Do not remember this sin against them!” He said this and died.

[8:1] And Saul approved of his murder.