Acts 7:51-59

51“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.

52Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

53you who received the law as ordained and delivered to you by angels, and yet you did not obey it!”

54Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him.

55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit and led by Him, gazed into heaven and saw the glory [the great splendor and majesty] of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;

56and he said, “Look! I see the heavens opened up [in welcome] and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

57But they shouted with loud voices, and covered their ears and together rushed at him [considering him guilty of blasphemy].

58Then they drove him out of the city and began stoning him; and the witnesses placed their outer robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

59They continued stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!”