Stephen’s speech to the Sanhedrin
1Then the high priest asked Stephen, ‘Are these charges true?’
2To this he replied: ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. 3“Leave your country and your people,” God said, “and go to the land I will show you.”7:3 Gen. 12:1
4‘So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living. 5He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child. 6God spoke to him in this way: “For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and ill-treated. 7But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,” God said, “and afterwards they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.”7:7 Gen. 15:13,14 8Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
9‘Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him 10and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.
11‘Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food. 12When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit. 13On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family. 14After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. 15Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died. 16Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.
17‘As the time drew near for God to fulfil his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. 18Then “a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt”.7:18 Exodus 1:8 19He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.
20‘At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.7:20 Or was fair in the sight of God For three months he was cared for by his family. 21When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. 22Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
23‘When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24He saw one of them being ill-treated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defence and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25Moses thought that his own people would realise that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. 26The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, “Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?”
27‘But the man who was ill-treating the other pushed Moses aside and said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? 28Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?”7:28 Exodus 2:14 29When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.
30‘After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. 31When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say: 32“I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”7:32 Exodus 3:6 Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
33‘Then the Lord said to him, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.”7:34 Exodus 3:5,7,8,10
35‘This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, “Who made you ruler and judge?” He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness.
37‘This is the Moses who told the Israelites, “God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.”7:37 Deut. 18:15 38He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us.
39‘But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. 40They told Aaron, “Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt – we don’t know what has happened to him!”7:40 Exodus 32:1 41That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and revelled in what their own hands had made. 42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:
‘ “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
for forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile”7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint) beyond Babylon.
44‘Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, 46who enjoyed God’s favour and asked that he might provide a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.7:46 Some early manuscripts the house of Jacob 47But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48‘However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49‘ “Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting-place be?
50Has not my hand made all these things?”7:50 Isaiah 66:1,2
51‘You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: you always resist the Holy Spirit! 52Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him – 53you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.’
The stoning of Stephen
54When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56‘Look,’ he said, ‘I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’
57At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ 60Then he fell on his knees and cried out, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Estebanca mandajcunamanmi Jesusmanta huillashca
1Curacunata mandaj curaca, Estebantaca:
—¿Paicuna juchachicushcaca chashnatajchu?— nishpami tapurca.
2Chashna tapujpica, Estebanca cashnami nirca:
—Tucui huauquicuna, yayacuna, ñucata uyahuaichij. Sumaj Diosca, ñucanchij ñaupa yaya Abrahammanca, manaraj Harán pueblopi causagrijpimi, Mesopotamia llajtapi ricurirca. 3Chaipi ricurishpami Diosca: “Cambaj llajtatapish, cambaj familiatapish saquishpa ri. Ñucami can maipi causana llajtata ricuchisha” nirca.
4Chaimantami Abrahamca, Caldea llajtamanta rishpa, Haranpi causagrirca. Paipaj yaya huañushca qʼuipami, Taita Diosca paitaca cunan cancuna causacun cai llajtaman pushamurca. 5Caiman chayachimushpapish, cai llajtapica allpataca, chaqui saruillatapish manaraj curcachu. Shina cashpapish chai punllacunapi Abraham manaraj huahuayuj cajpimi, Diosca: Canmanpish, cambaj huahua huahuacunamanpishmi cai allpataca cusha nirca. 6Taita Diosca, cashnapishmi nirca: “Cambaj huahua huahuacunaca, quiquin llajtamanta rishpami, caru llajtapi causanga. Chai llajta runacunami, paicunataca chuscu patsaj huatacama, huatashcata shina servichishpa, llaquita charingacuna. 7Paicunata llaquichishpa charicuj runacunata, ñuca quiquin jatunta llaquichishpami, cambaj huahuacunataca llujshichimusha. Chaimantaca cai llajtapi churajpimi, caipi ñucata servingacuna” nishcami Diosca. 8Abrahamtaca, paihuan ari ninacushcata ricuchij cachunmi, pai charishca aicha punta carata pʼitichun mandashca. Chaimantami Abrahamca, paipaj churi Isaactapish huacharishca pusaj punllapica, pai charishca aicha punta carata pʼitirca. Isaacpish, paipaj churi Jacobota, Jacobopish, paipaj chunga ishqui churicunataca chashnallatajmi rurarca. Paicunami, ñucanchij ñaupa yayacuna carca.
9Chai ñaupa yayacunaca, paicunapaj huauqui Josetaca pʼiñashcamantami, Egiptomanca huatashca shina causagrichun, cʼatushpa cacharcacuna. Shina rurajpipish, Taita Diosca Josetaca manataj saquircachu. 10Paimi Josetaca, ima llaquimantapish llujshichirca. Shinallataj Faraón cʼuyachunmi, Josetaca alli yachajta rurarca. Chaimantami Josetaca, paipaj quiquin huasipipish, tucui llajtapipish, tucuita ricuj cachun churarca.
11Chai punllacunallatajmi Egiptopipish, Canaanpipish jatun yaricai jatarishpa, jatunta llaquichirca. Ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunapish, maipi ima micunata mana japircacunachu. 12Yaya Jacoboca, Egiptollapi micuna tiyajta yachashpami, ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunataca punta cutin chaiman cacharca. 13Cati cuti rijpimi Joseca, paicunapaj huauqui cashcata paicunaman huillarca. Chaipimi Faraonca, Josetaca pipuramanta cashcata yacharca. 14Chai qʼuipami Joseca, paipaj yaya Jacobotaca, tucui huasi ucupuracunandijta pushaj cacharca. Paicunaca, tucuimantaca 75llami carca. 15Chaicunallahuanmi Jacoboca Egiptopi causagrirca. Chaipimi paipish, ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunapish huañurcacuna. 16Paicunapaj tullucunataca, Siquem llajtamanmi apamurcacuna. Chai Siquem llajtapimi Abrahamca, Hamorpaj churicunamanca pambana jutcundij mirga allpata achca cullquihuan randishca carca. Chaipimi chai tullucunataca pambarcacuna.
17Abrahamman cai llajtata Taita Dios ‘Cushami’ nishca ña pajtamujpica, israelcunaca Egiptopica achcatami mirarcacuna. 18Chai punllacunallapitajmi Egiptopica, Joseta mana rijsij shuj jatun mandaj mandai callarirca. 19Chai mandajca, yachaj tucushca cashpami, tucui ñucanchijpurata tucuchinata yuyarirca. Chashna yuyashpami ama ashtahuan mirachun nishpa, ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunataca, cʼari llullu huahuacunata shitachirca.
20Chai punllacunallapitajmi, Moisesca huacharirca. Paica, Taita Dios munashca, sumaj huahuami carca. Quimsa quillatami paipaj yaya mamaca, huasipi pacashpa charirca. 21Ña mana ashtahuan pacalla chari tucushpa shitashcatami, Faraonpaj ushushica japishpa, quiquin huahuata shina huiñachirca. 22Moisesca, chaipi huiñashpami, Egiptopi tiyaj tucui yachaicunata yacharca. Chaimantami, imata rimangapajpish, imata rurangapajpish alli yachaj carca.
23Ña chuscu chunga huatayuj cashpami, Moisesca paipaj huauqui Israelcunata ricugrirca. 24Chai punllataj shuj Egipto runa Israel runata macacujta japishpami Moisesca, israel runata mitsashpa chai Egipto runata huañuchirca. 25Paipaj huauquicunaca, ‘Egiptomanta llujshichichun, Taita Dios paita churashcata yuyangami’ nishpami, chashna huañuchirca. Ashtahuanpish paicunaca, mana chashna yuyarcachu. 26Cayandij punllapish ricunaman rishpaca, ishqui israelcuna macanacucujtami japirca. Paicunataca, alli tucunacuchun nishpami: “Jalachij, cancunaca huauquindijllatajmari canguichij. ¿Ima nishpataj cashna macanacunguichij?” nirca.
27Ashtahuanpish chai macacuj runaca, Moisestaca cashnami cʼariyarca: “¿Pitaj cantaca ñucanchijta mandachun, ñucanchij juez cachun churarcari? 28¿Ñucatapishchu caina chai Egipto runata shina huañuchisha ningui?” nircami. 29Chashna nijpica Moisesca, mancharishpa, Madián llajtamanmi miticushpa rirca. Chai llajtapi causacushpami ishqui churiyuj tucurca.
30Ñami chuscu chunga yalli huatacunata chaipi causacurca. Chaipimi, Sinaí urcu cʼuchu shitashca pambapica, rupacuj zarza yura chaupipi, shuj ángel ricurirca.
31Chaita ricushpa achcata mancharishpa, Moisés ashtahuan alli ricungapaj cʼuchuyacushpami, Mandaj Dios cashna nijta uyarca: 32“Ñucaca, cambaj ñaupa yaya Abrahampaj, Isaacpaj, Jacobopaj Taita Diosmi cani” nircami. Chashna nijpica, Moisesca manchaihuan chujchushpa, mana ashtahuan cʼuchuyarcachu.
33Mandaj Diosca, cashnapishmi nirca: “Canca ñucapajlla chʼicanchishca pambapimari shayacungui, cambaj pargateta chaquimanta surcui.
34Ñuca agllashcacunata, Egiptopi jatunta llaquichicujtaca ricunimi. Chai llaquihuan ñacashpa ‘¡Ai!’ nicujtapish uyanimi. Chaimantami, paicunata llujshichingapaj uriyamurcani. Shamui, cunan canta Egiptoman cachasha” nircami.
35Riquichij, chai Moisestamari: “¿Pitaj cantaca ñucanchijta mandaj cachun, juez cachunca churarcari?” nishpa pʼiñashcacuna carca. Paillatatajmari, zarza yurapi ricurij angelhuan Taita Diosca, paicunata mandaj cachun, quishpichij cachunpish churarca. 36Chai Moisesmi, ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunataca, jatun mancharinacunatapish señalcunatapish rurashpa, Egiptomanta llujshichirca. Puca Cuchapipish, shitashca pambapipish, chuscu chunga huatatami, chashnallataj rurashpa pushamurca.
37Chai Moisesllatajmi, israelcunataca: “Diosca, ñucata cachashca shinallatajmi, cancunapuramantaca, Pai ima nishcata huillaj shuj runata cachanga” nishca. 38Chai Moisesllatajmi, shitashca pambapi ñucanchij ñaupa yayacuna tandanacushcapica, Sinaí urcupi paihuan rimaj angelhuan carca. Paimi, Causaita cuj Shimicunata Diosmanta chasquishpa, ñucanchijman huillarca.
39Chashna cajpipish, ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunaca, Moisesta caźunapaj randica, pʼiñarcacunami. Paicunapaj shungupica Egiptoman tigrana yuyaillami carca. 40Chaimantami Aarontaca: “Ñucanchijta Egiptomanta llujshichimuj Moisesca, imapishchari tucun, mana uyarinchu. Ñucanchijpaj dioscunata rurailla, chai dioscuna ñucanchijta pushashpa tigrachun” nircacunami.
41Chaimantaca, biźi diosta rurashpami, chaiman animalcunata cushpa huañuchircacuna. Chashnami quiquin maquihuan rurashca dios-huanca, jatunta cushicurcacuna. 42Shina rurajpimi, Taita Diosca paicunamanta anchurishpa, luźerocunata adorachun saquirca. Dios ima nishcata huillajcunapaj Libropi cashna quillcashcami pajtarca:
“Israelcuna, cancunaca shitashca pambapi, chuscu chunga huatacunata puricushpaca,
¿ñucamanchari animalcunata cushpa huañuchircanguichigari?
43Ashtahuanpish Moloctami, paipaj carpa huasindij aparishpa purircanguichij.
Renfán shuti diospaj luźerotapishmi aparishca purircanguichij.
Shujtaj dioscunatapish rurashpami, adorarcanguichij.
Chaimantami llujshichishpa, Babilonia llajta chaininijcama cachasha” nishcami.
44Ñucanchij ñaupa yayacunaca, shitashca pambapica, paicunaman Dios ricurina carpa huasillatami charircacuna. Chai huasica, ima shinallata rurachun, Moisesman Dios ricuchishca shinatataj rurashcami carca. 45Chaita chasquishpaca cancunapaj yayacunataca, Josué pushamujpimi, cai llajtaman yaicuchimurca. Diosca paicunata caipi churangapajmi, cai llajtapi causacujcunataca llujshichishpa cachashca. Chai carpa huasitaca, David mandaj tucungacamami charicurcacuna. 46Davidmi, Taita Dios jatunta cʼuyashca tucurca. Chaimantami Jacobopaj Diostaca: “Cambaj shuj huasita rurachun saquihuai” nishpa mañarca. 47Ashtahuanpish paipaj churi Salomonmi, chai huasitaca shayachirca.
48Shina cajpipish jahua pacha Diosca, runacuna maquihuan rurashca huasicunapica, mana causanchu. Chaimantami, Dios ima nishcata huillajllataj cashna nishca:
49“ ‘Jahua pachaca, ñuca mandashpa tiyanami.
Cai pachaca, ñuca chaqui sarunami.
¿Ima shinataj ñucapajca, huasita ruragringuichigari?’
ninmi Mandaj Diosca.
‘Ñuca samarinatapish, ¿maipitaj ruranguichigari?
50Ñucallatajmari cai tucuitaca rurarcani’ ninmi” nishcami.
51¡Upacuna, chʼahuan shungucuna, rinrin mana uyajcuna! Cancunapaj ñaupa yayacuna shinallatajmi canguichij. Jucha illaj Espiritutaca, manataj caźushun ninguichijchu. 52Cancunapaj yayacunaca, Dios ima nishcata huillajcunataca, ¿maijantataj mana llaquichircacunari? ‘Cashcata Ruraj Runa shamungami’ nishpa, ñaupaman huillajcunatami huañuchircacuna. Cunan Pai quiquin shamujpipish, huashalla yuyarinacushpami, Paitapish huañuchichircanguichij. 53Cancunaca, Mandashcatapish angelcunapaj shimimantatajmi chasquircanguichij. Shina cajpipish manataj caźunguichijchu— nircami.
Estebantaca rumicunahuan shitashpami huañuchishcacuna
54Esteban chashna nijta uyashpaca, paihuanca canirishpami, yallitaj pʼiñarircacuna. 55Ashtahuanpish Estebanca, jucha illaj Espirituhuan junda cashpami, jahua pachata huichilla ricurca. Chaipica achij nicuj Taita Dios tiyacujtapish, Diospaj alli ladopi Jesús shayacujtapishmi ricurca. 56Chaita ricushpami, Estebanca:
—Riquichigari, jahua pachacuna pascarishcatamari ricuni. Runa Aichayujpish, Taita Diospaj alli ladopimari shayacun— nircami.
57Chaita mana uyashun nishpaca, achcata caparinacushpami, rinrinta taparircacuna. Chaimantaca huaicashpami, Estebanta japigrircacuna. 58Paita japishpaca, tʼangashpa pueblomanta llujshichishpami, rumicunahuan shitarcacuna. Juchachicujcunaca, Saulo shuti mosomanmi, paicunapaj churanacunata mingarcacuna. 59Rumihuan shitacujllapitajmi, Estebanca:
—Apunchij Jesús, ñuca espirituta chasquipai— nishpa mañarca.
60Chashna nishcahuan cungurishpami:
—Apunchij Jesús, paicuna cashna millaita ruracushcataca, ama yuyaripangui— nishpa, sinchita caparirca. Chashna nishcahuan huañurcallami.
