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Stephen remains calm while being judged in the Sanhedrin. Acts 6:11-15 Wealthy Sadducees are in the background, and ultraorthodox Pharisees, in the foreground. “At hearing these things they felt cut to their hearts and began to gnash their teeth at him.”—Acts 7:54
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One of the first persons to grasp the implications of Christ's resurrection, with regard to Gentiles and the temple rituals, was Stephen. His preaching of the Good News was incompatible with the power structure and temple economics of the Pharisees and Sadducees, so Stephen's arrest was inevitable. Stephen was not a man to back down, so after a trial (in which he convicted his accusers) he was condemned. As the rocks struck him, he looked up and saw Jesus at God's right hand. See Acts chs 6 & 7.
Lessons 7-9 from the Divine Office of The Invention of St. Stephen Protomartyr: Matt 23:34-39; Book 4, chapter 23 of the Commentary on Matthew by St. Jerome the Priest
Lessons 7-9 from the Divine Office of The Invention of St. Stephen Protomartyr: Matt 23:34-39; Book 4, chapter 23 of the Commentary on Matthew by St. Jerome the Priest | Maria Angela Grow
The Stoning of Stephen
Acts 7:54) Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. 55) 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. 56) And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." 57) But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.
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