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God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.

We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

After summoning the emissaries and flogging them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Yeshua, and let them go.

The emissaries left the Sanhedrin overjoyed at having been considered worthy of suffering disgrace on account of him.

And not for a single day, either in the Temple court or in private homes, did they stop teaching and proclaiming the Good News that Yeshua is the Messiah.

for we have heard him say that Yeshua from Natzeret will destroy this place and will change the customs Moshe handed down to us.”

He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.

But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’

And he gave him b’rit-milah. So he became the father of Yitz’chak and did his b’rit-milah on the eighth day, and Yitz’chak became the father of Ya‘akov, and Ya‘akov became the father of the Twelve Patriarchs.

“After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.

When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of Adonai,

Adonai said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

“This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.

This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra’el, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’

This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by the angel that had spoken to him at Mount Sinai and by our fathers, the man who was given living words to pass on to us.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars — as has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘People of Isra’el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!

“Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness. It had been made just as God, who spoke to Moshe, had ordered it made, according to the pattern Moshe had seen.

and Shlomo did build him a house.

But Ha‘Elyon does not live in places made by hand! As the prophet says,

‘Heaven is my throne,’ says Adonai, ‘and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What kind of place could you devise for my rest?

Didn’t I myself make all these things?’

But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God’s Sh’khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God.

“Look!” he exclaimed, “I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

As they were stoning him, Stephen called out to God, “Lord Yeshua! Receive my spirit!”

Then he kneeled down and shouted out, “Lord! Don’t hold this sin against them!” With that, he died;