Bible Verses About Select Readings

And then, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved.”’

“Men of Isra’el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this.

This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!

“But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him.

For David says this about him: ‘I saw Adonai always before me, for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

For this reason, my heart was glad; and my tongue rejoiced; and now my body too will live on in the certain hope

that you will not abandon me to Sh’ol or let your Holy One see decay.

You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy by your presence.’

“Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried — his tomb is with us to this day.

Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne,

he was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was he who was not abandoned in Sh’ol and whose flesh did not see decay.

God raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!

“Moreover, he has been exalted to the right hand of God; has received from the Father what he promised, namely, the Ruach HaKodesh; and has poured out this gift, which you are both seeing and hearing.

For David did not ascend into heaven. But he says,

‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

Therefore, let the whole house of Isra’el know beyond doubt that God has made him both Lord and Messiah — this Yeshua, whom you executed on a stake!”

The cohen hagadol asked, “Are these accusations true?”

and Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran

and said to him, ‘Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.’

So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.

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.

What God said to him was, ‘Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years.

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.

“Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But Adonai was with him;