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Acts 7 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts Chapter 7 The high priest said, Are these things so?
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  And he said, Hear me, brethren and fathers, the God of glory
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  appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,
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  before he lived in Heron. And he said to him, Leave your
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  country and your relatives, and come into the land, that I will
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  show you. Then he left the land of the
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  Chaldeans and settled in Heron. From there, after his father
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  died, God made him move to this country in which you are now
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  living. But he gave him no inheritance
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  in it, not even a foot of ground.
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  And yet, even when he had no child, he promised that he would
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  give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after
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  him. But God spoke to this effect,
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  that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and
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  that they would be enslaved and mistreated for 400 years.
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  And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage, I
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  myself will judge, said God. And after that they will come
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  out and serve me in this place. And he gave him the covenant of
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  circumcision. And so Abraham became the father
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  of Isaac, and circumcised him on the 8th day.
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  And Isaac became the father of Jacob and Jacob of the 12
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  patriarchs. The patriarchs became jealous of
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  Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him and rescued
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  him from all his afflictions, and granted him favour and
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  wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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  And he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.
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  Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction
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  with it, and our fathers could find no food.
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  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our
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  fathers there the first time. On the second visit Joseph made
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  himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was
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  disclosed to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent word and
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  invited Jacob, his father, and all his relatives to come to
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  him, 75 persons in all. And Jacob went down to Egypt,
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  and there he and our fathers died.
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  From there they were removed to Shechem and laid in the tomb
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  which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of
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  Hamor in Shechem. But as the time of the promise
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  was approaching, which God had assured to Abraham, the people
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  increased and multiplied in Egypt, until there arose another
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  king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.
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  It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and
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  mistreated our father so that they would expose their infants
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  and they would not survive. It was at this time that Moses
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  was born and he was lovely in the sight of God, and he was
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  nurtured 3 months in his father's home, and after he had
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  been set outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and
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  nurtured him as her own son. Moses was educated in all the
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  learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words
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  and deeds. When he was approaching the age
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  of 40, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of
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  Israel. When he saw one of them being
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  treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the
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  oppressed by striking down the Egyptian, and he supposed that
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  his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance
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  through him, but they did not understand.
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  On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting
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  together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying,
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  Men you are brethren, why do you injure one another?
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  But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away,
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  saying, Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
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  You do not mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian
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  yesterday, do you? At this remark Moses fled and
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  became an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the
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  father of two sons. After 40 years had passed, an
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  Angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in the
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  flame of a burning thorn Bush. When Moses saw it, he marvelled
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  at the sight, and as he approached to look more closely,
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  there came the voice of the Lord.
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  I am the God of your Father's, the God of Abraham and Isaac and
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  Jacob. Moses shook with fear and would
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  not venture to look, but the Lord said to him, Take off the
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  sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing
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  is holy ground. I have certainly seen the
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  oppression of my people in Egypt and have heard their groans, and
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  I have come down to rescue them. Come now, and I will send you to
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  Egypt. This Moses whom they disowned,
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  saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge, is the one whom God
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  sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer.
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  With the help of the Angel who appeared to him in the thorn
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  Bush, this man LED them out performing wonders and signs in
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  the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for 40
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  years. This is the Moses who said to
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  the sons of Israel, God will raise up for you a prophet like
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  me from your brethren. This is the one who was in the
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  congregation in the wilderness, together with the Angel who was
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  speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers,
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  and he received living oracles to pass on to you.
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  Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated
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  him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt, saying to Aaron,
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  Make for us gods who will go before us.
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  For this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt.
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  We do not know what happened to him at that time.
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  They made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol and were
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  rejoicing in the works of their hands, but God turned away and
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  delivered them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written
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  in the book of the prophets. It was not to me that you
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  offered victims and sacrifices. 40 years in the wilderness was
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  it, O House of Israel, You also took along the Tabernacle of
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  Moloch and the star of the God Ramfa the images which you made
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  to worship. I will also remove you beyond
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  Babylon. Our fathers had the Tabernacle
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  of testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses
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  directed him to make it according to the pattern which
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  he had seen. And having received it in their
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  turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua.
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  Upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our
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  fathers until the time of David, David found favor in God's
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  sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the
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  God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who built a
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  house for him. However, the Most High does not
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  dwell in houses made by human hands.
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  As the prophet says, Heaven is my throne and earth is the
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  footstool of my feet. What kind of house will you
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  build for me, says the Lord, Or what place is there for my
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  repose? Was it not my hand which made
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  all these things? You men who are stiff necked and
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  uncircumcised in heart and ears, are always resisting the Holy
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  Spirit. You were doing just as your
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  Father's did. Which one of the prophets did
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  your Father's not persecute? They killed those who had
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  previously announced the coming of the righteous one whose
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  betrayers and murderers you have now become.
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  You who received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet did
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  not keep it. Now when they heard this, they
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  were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at
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  him. But being full of the Holy
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  Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven, and saw the glory of
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  God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
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  And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened up, and the Son
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  of man standing at the right hand of God.
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  But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears,
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  and rushed at him with one impulse.
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  When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning
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  him, and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of
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  a young man named Saul. They went on stoning Stephen as
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  he called on the Lord and said, Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit.
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  Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice,
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  Lord, do not hold the sin against them.
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  Having said this, he fell asleep.