Acts 7:44-53

44Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the desert just as the One who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.^g 45Our ancestors who inherited it brought it with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out from before our ancestors, up to the time of David,^h 46who found favor in the sight of God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.ⁱ 47But Solomon built a house for him.^j 48Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:^k

49‘The heavens are my throne,

the earth is my footstool.

What kind of house can you build for me?

says the Lord,

or what is to be my resting place?^l

50Did not my hand make all these things?’

Conclusion. 51“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always oppose the holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors. 52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.^m 53You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it.”ⁿ