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ACTS CHAPTER 7
Act_7:1-8 Stephen, called upon to answer the charge against him,
relateth how God called Abraham, and gave him and his
seed the land of Canaan by promise,
Act_7:9-16 how Joseph was sold by his brethren, and Jacob with
his family went down into Egypt,
Act_7:17-36 how, when they were oppressed by the Egyptians, Moses
was born, and sent to deliver Israel out of Egypt,
Act_7:37-43 that this same Moses witnessed of Christ, received the
law, and experienced the disobedience and idolatry of
their forefathers,
Act_7:44-50 who had the tabernacle of witness, till Solomon built
the temple,
Act_7:51-53 He reproacheth his hearers with imitating their
fathers’ rebellion against God, and persecution of his
prophets, by having themselves murdered Christ, and
transgressed the law they had received,
Act_7:54-60 Stung with reproach, they stone him, looking up with
faith unto God, and calling upon Jesus to receive his
soul, and forgive his persecutors,
Then said the high priest; who was resolved to condemn any, right or wrong, that should profess Christ, as appears Joh_9:22.
Are these things so? That he might seem just, he gives him a kind of liberty to answer for himself; not to defend his doctrine, but; to know out of his own mouth whether he preached it, or not.