Acts 7

1The high priest said, “Are these things so?”Cross-references: Matt 26:61 · Mark 14:58 · John 18:19 · John 18:33 · Acts 6:13

2He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 12:1 · Gen 12:5 · Gen 15:7 · Gen 29:4 · Josh 24:2 · +18 more

3and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 13:14 · Gen 15:7 · Josh 24:3 · Neh 9:8 · Matt 10:37 · +3 more

4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 12:4 · Isa 41:2 · Isa 41:9

5He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 15:2 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 16:2 · Gen 17:8 · +15 more

6God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Gen 15:16 · Ex 12:40 · Gal 3:17

7‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve me in this place.’Cross-references: Gen 15:14 · Ex 3:12 · Ex 7:1 · Neh 9:9 · Ps 74:12 · Ps 78:43 · +4 more

8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.Cross-references: Gen 17:9 · Gen 21:1 · Gen 25:21 · Gen 29:31 · Gen 35:16 · Gen 35:18 · +12 more

9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with himCross-references: Gen 37:4 · Gen 37:18 · Gen 39:2 · Gen 39:5 · Gen 39:21 · Gen 45:4 · +6 more

10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.Cross-references: Gen 41:12 · Gen 42:6 · Gen 44:18 · Gen 45:8 · Gen 48:16 · Ps 22:24 · +10 more

11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.Cross-references: Gen 41:54 · Gen 42:5 · Gen 43:1 · Gen 45:5 · Gen 45:11 · Gen 47:13 · +1 more

12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.Cross-references: Gen 42:1 · Gen 43:2

13On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh.Cross-references: Gen 45:1 · Gen 46:31

14Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.Cross-references: Gen 45:9 · Gen 46:12 · Gen 46:26 · Ex 1:5 · Deut 10:22 · 1Chr 2:5 · +1 more

15Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers;Cross-references: Gen 46:3 · Gen 49:33 · Ex 1:6 · Num 20:15 · Deut 10:22 · Deut 26:5 · +2 more

16and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.Cross-references: Gen 23:16 · Gen 33:9 · Gen 34:2 · Gen 35:19 · Gen 49:29 · Gen 50:13 · +2 more

17“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Ex 1:7 · Ex 1:20 · Ps 105:24 · Acts 7:6 · Acts 13:17 · +1 more

18until there arose a different king who didn’t know Joseph.Cross-references: Ex 1:8

19The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.Cross-references: Ex 1:9 · Ps 83:4 · Ps 105:25 · Ps 129:1 · Rev 12:4

20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.Cross-references: Ex 2:2 · 1Sam 16:12 · Heb 11:23

21When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.Cross-references: Ex 2:2 · Deut 32:26 · Heb 11:24

22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.Cross-references: 1Ki 4:29 · 2Chr 9:22 · Isa 19:11 · Dan 1:4 · Dan 1:17 · Luke 24:19

23But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 2:11 · Ex 4:18 · Ex 35:21 · Ex 35:29 · 1Chr 29:17 · 2Chr 30:12 · +10 more

24Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.Cross-references: John 18:10 · John 18:25 · Acts 7:28

25He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.Cross-references: 1Sam 14:45 · 1Sam 19:5 · 2Ki 5:1 · Ps 106:7 · Mark 9:32 · Luke 9:45 · +10 more

26“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’Cross-references: Gen 13:8 · Gen 45:24 · Ex 2:13 · Ps 133:1 · Prov 18:19 · John 15:17 · +4 more

27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?Cross-references: Gen 19:19 · 1Sam 25:14 · Prov 9:7 · Matt 21:23 · Luke 12:14 · John 18:36 · +8 more

28Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

29Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.Cross-references: Ex 2:14 · Ex 4:19 · Ex 18:2

30“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.Cross-references: Gen 16:7 · Gen 22:15 · Gen 32:24 · Gen 48:15 · Ex 3:1 · Ex 3:6 · +17 more

31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, the voice of the Lord came to him,Cross-references: Ex 3:3

32‘I am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled and dared not look.Cross-references: Gen 28:13 · Gen 50:24 · Ex 3:6 · Ex 3:15 · Ex 4:5 · Ex 33:20 · +14 more

33The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.Cross-references: Ex 3:5 · Josh 5:15 · Eccl 5:1 · 2Pet 1:18

34I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’Cross-references: Gen 11:5 · Gen 11:7 · Gen 18:21 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:14 · +15 more

35“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.Cross-references: Ex 14:19 · Ex 14:24 · Ex 23:20 · Ex 32:34 · Ex 33:2 · Ex 33:12 · +24 more

36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.Cross-references: Ex 7:1 · Ex 12:41 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 14:27 · Ex 15:23 · Ex 16:1 · +27 more

37This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · 2Chr 28:22 · Dan 6:13 · Matt 17:3 · Mark 9:7 · Luke 9:30 · +5 more

38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,Cross-references: Ex 19:3 · Ex 20:19 · Ex 21:1 · Num 16:3 · Num 16:41 · Deut 5:27 · +20 more

39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,Cross-references: Ex 14:11 · Ex 16:3 · Ex 17:3 · Num 11:5 · Num 14:3 · Num 21:5 · +8 more

40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’Cross-references: Ex 32:1 · Ex 32:23

41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.Cross-references: Ex 32:2 · Ex 32:17 · Deut 9:12 · Neh 9:18 · Ps 106:19 · Isa 2:8 · +5 more

42But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Deut 17:3 · Josh 24:20 · 2Ki 17:16 · 2Ki 21:3 · Job 31:26 · +17 more

43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship, so I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’Cross-references: Ex 20:4 · Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:2 · Deut 4:16 · Deut 5:8 · 2Ki 17:6 · +4 more

44“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;Cross-references: Ex 25:8 · Ex 25:40 · Ex 26:30 · Ex 38:21 · Num 1:50 · Num 9:15 · +9 more

45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers to the days of David,Cross-references: Deut 32:49 · Josh 3:6 · Josh 3:11 · Josh 18:1 · Josh 23:9 · Josh 24:18 · +12 more

46who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:28 · 1Sam 16:1 · 1Sam 16:11 · 2Sam 6:21 · 2Sam 7:1 · 2Sam 7:8 · +11 more

47But Solomon built him a house.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 5:1 · 1Ki 6:37 · 1Ki 7:13 · 1Ki 8:20 · 1Chr 17:1 · +3 more

48However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,Cross-references: Deut 32:8 · 1Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 2:5 · 2Chr 6:18 · Ps 7:17 · Ps 46:4 · +9 more

49‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Ps 11:4 · Isa 66:1 · Jer 7:4 · Jer 23:24 · Mal 1:11 · +5 more

50Didn’t my hand make all these things?’Cross-references: Ex 20:11 · Ps 33:6 · Ps 50:9 · Ps 146:5 · Isa 40:28 · Isa 44:24 · +6 more

51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.Cross-references: Ex 32:9 · Ex 33:3 · Ex 33:5 · Ex 34:9 · Lev 26:41 · Deut 9:6 · +30 more

52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:7 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · 2Chr 24:19 · 2Chr 36:16 · Neh 9:26 · +22 more

53You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”Cross-references: Ex 19:1 · Deut 33:2 · Ps 68:17 · Ezek 20:18 · John 7:19 · Acts 7:38 · +4 more

54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.Cross-references: Job 16:9 · Ps 35:16 · Ps 112:10 · Lam 2:16 · Matt 8:12 · Matt 13:42 · +7 more

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,Cross-references: Ps 109:31 · Isa 6:1 · Ezek 1:26 · Ezek 10:4 · Ezek 10:18 · Ezek 11:23 · +19 more

56and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”Cross-references: Ezek 1:1 · Dan 7:13 · Matt 3:16 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 16:27 · Matt 25:31 · +10 more

57But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.Cross-references: Ps 58:4 · Prov 21:13 · Zech 7:11 · Acts 7:54 · Acts 21:27 · Acts 23:27

58They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.Cross-references: Lev 24:14 · Num 15:35 · Deut 13:9 · Deut 17:7 · 1Ki 21:13 · Luke 4:29 · +8 more

59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”Cross-references: Ps 31:5 · Joel 2:32 · Luke 23:46 · Acts 2:21 · Acts 9:14 · Acts 9:21 · +3 more

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.Cross-references: Ezra 9:5 · Dan 6:10 · Matt 5:44 · Matt 27:52 · Luke 6:28 · Luke 22:41 · +13 more