Acts 7:59

And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

In Context

58and casting him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes beside the feet of a young man named Saul.

60Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And having said this, he fell asleep.

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Cross References

Luke 23:46And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, ‘ into Your hands I will commit My spirit.’ ” And after He said these things, He breathed His last.

Acts 9:14and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name.”

Acts 22:16And now, what are you going to do? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

1 Corinthians 1:2To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all those who in every place are calling on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:55-60

Stephen's Martyrdom; Stephen's Dying Prayer. 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of… Read the whole commentary →

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