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Stephen in deep teal and cream speaking with an open hand before seated council members.
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Acts 7:51-53

You Resist the Holy Spirit

Stephen's Witness · Acts 7

Story guide: Stephen rebukes his hearers for resisting the Holy Spirit. The familiar high-priestly-family faces and council arrangement are reconstruction; the passage does not name every listener.

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51You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

53you who received the law as delivered by angels, and did not keep it.

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