Acts 7:51

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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

but as they were not able to withstand the force of that sublime knowledge which appeared in his discourse,

grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom you are sealed against the day of deliverance:

the patriarchs being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt: but God was with him,

whereby you yourselves own that ye are indeed the children of those who killed the prophets,

and asked him, by what authority do you behave thus? and who gave you that authority?

but he being hated by the citizens, after he was gone, they sent a deputation to court, to make this protest, "we will not have him for our king."

of sin, because they believ'd not on me;