Acts of the Apostles 6:8-15; 7:1-5, 47-60
IN THOSE DAYS, Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders
and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the
synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of
the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and
disputed with Stephen. But they could not withstand the wisdom and the
Spirit with which he spoke. Then they secretly instigated men, who said,
"We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and
they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak
words against this holy place and the law; for we have heard him say
that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change
the customs which Moses delivered to us." And gazing at him, all who
sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
And the high priest said, "Is this so?" And Stephen said: "Brethren
and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father
Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and said to
him, 'Depart from your land and from your kindred and go into the land
which I will show you.' Then he departed from the land of the
Chaldeans, and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him
from there into this land in which you are now living; yet he gave him
no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give
it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he
had no child.
"But it was Solomon who built a house for him. Yet the Most High does
not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says, 'Heaven is
my throne, and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me,
says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make
all these things?'
"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always
resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the
prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who
announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now
betrayed and murdered, you who received the law as delivered by angels and
did not keep it."
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground
their teeth against him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into
heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of
God; and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of
man standing at the right hand of God." But they cried out with a
loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him. Then
they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid
down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they
were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." And
he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this
sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
37 ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ' αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ ἰησοῦς, πορεύου καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.
38 ἐν δὲ τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτοὺς αὐτὸς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς κώμην τινά: γυνὴ δέ τις ὀνόματι μάρθα ὑπεδέξατο αὐτόν.
39 καὶ τῇδε ἦν ἀδελφὴ καλουμένη μαριάμ, [ἣ] καὶ παρακαθεσθεῖσα πρὸς τοὺς πόδας τοῦ κυρίου ἤκουεν τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ.
40 ἡ δὲ μάρθα περιεσπᾶτο περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν: ἐπιστᾶσα δὲ εἶπεν, κύριε, οὐ μέλει σοι ὅτι ἡ ἀδελφή μου μόνην με κατέλιπεν διακονεῖν; εἰπὲ οὖν αὐτῇ ἵνα μοι συναντιλάβηται.
41 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ κύριος, μάρθα μάρθα, μεριμνᾷς καὶ θορυβάζῃ περὶ πολλά,
42 ἑνὸς δέ ἐστιν χρεία: μαριὰμ γὰρ τὴν ἀγαθὴν μερίδα ἐξελέξατο ἥτις οὐκ ἀφαιρεθήσεται αὐτῆς.
38 ἐν δὲ τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτοὺς αὐτὸς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς κώμην τινά: γυνὴ δέ τις ὀνόματι μάρθα ὑπεδέξατο αὐτόν.
39 καὶ τῇδε ἦν ἀδελφὴ καλουμένη μαριάμ, [ἣ] καὶ παρακαθεσθεῖσα πρὸς τοὺς πόδας τοῦ κυρίου ἤκουεν τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ.
40 ἡ δὲ μάρθα περιεσπᾶτο περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν: ἐπιστᾶσα δὲ εἶπεν, κύριε, οὐ μέλει σοι ὅτι ἡ ἀδελφή μου μόνην με κατέλιπεν διακονεῖν; εἰπὲ οὖν αὐτῇ ἵνα μοι συναντιλάβηται.
41 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ κύριος, μάρθα μάρθα, μεριμνᾷς καὶ θορυβάζῃ περὶ πολλά,
42 ἑνὸς δέ ἐστιν χρεία: μαριὰμ γὰρ τὴν ἀγαθὴν μερίδα ἐξελέξατο ἥτις οὐκ ἀφαιρεθήσεται αὐτῆς.
Κυριακή 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2010
But it was Solomon who built a house for him. Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands;
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