² Men will expel YOU from the synagogue.*+ In fact, the hour is coming when everyone that kills YOU will imagine he has rendered a sacred service* to God.+

⁵⁹ And they went on casting stones at Stephen as he made appeal* and said: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”+

² He did away with James the brother of John+ by the sword.+

¹¹ And a white+ robe was given to each of them; and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the number was filled also of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed+ as they also had been.