Acts 7:59

And they stoned Estephanos, (he) praying and saying, Our Lord Jeshu, receive my spirit.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

58and seizing they brought him out of the city and stoned him. And they who witnessed against him laid their garments before the feet of a certain young man named Shaol.

60And kneeling down, he cried with a high voice, and said, Our Lord, let not this sin arise against them. And when this he had said, he slept.

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Cross References

Luke 23:46And Jeshu cried with a high voice, and said, My Father, in thy hands I place my spirit. This he said, and completed.

Acts 9:14And behold, here also he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all those who invoke thy name.

Acts 22:16And now why delayest thou? Arise, baptize, and be washed from thy sins, while thou callest his Name.

1 Corinthians 1:2to the church of Aloha which is in Kurinthos, the called, and the saints who in Jeshu Meshiha are sanctified; and to all them who invoke the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha in every place, 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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