So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”