Act 7:51-56, Heb 11:27, 32-37 | ESV | STEP | You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears , you always resist the Holy Spirit . As your fathers did, so do you .

51 ^a“You stiff-necked people, ^buncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^cAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 ^dWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of ^ethe Righteous One, ^fwhom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law ^gas delivered by angels and ^hdid not keep it.”

The Stoning of Stephen

54 Now when they heard these things ⁱthey were enraged, and they ^jground their teeth at him. 55 But he, ^kfull of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw ^lthe glory of God, and Jesus standing ^mat the right hand of God. 56 And he said, “Behold, I see ⁿthe heavens opened, and ^othe Son of Man standing ^pat the right hand of God.”

Hebrews 11:27

27 By faith he ^qleft Egypt, ^rnot being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured ^sas seeing him who is invisible.

Hebrews 11:32-37

32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of ^tGideon, ^uBarak, ^vSamson, ^wJephthah, of ^xDavid and ^ySamuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, ^zstopped the mouths of lions, 34 ^aaquenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, ^abbecame mighty in war, ^acput foreign armies to flight. 35 ^adWomen received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even ^aechains and imprisonment. 37 ^afThey were stoned, they were sawn in two, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add they were tempted} ^ahthey were killed with the sword. ^aiThey went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—