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Then the High Priest asked him, “Are these accusations true?”

This was Stephen’s lengthy reply: “The glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Iraq[a] before he moved to Syria, and told him to leave his native land, to say good-bye to his relatives and to start out for a country that God would direct him to.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:2 Iraq, literally, “Mesopotamia.” Syria, literally, “Haran,” a city in the area we now know as Syria.

Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers,(A) listen to me! The God of glory(B) appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.(C) ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1