Acts 7:59 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

While council members were executing Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, welcome my spirit."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

ASV:

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord , and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

BBE:

And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

DBY:

And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

ERV:

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

WEY:

So they stoned Stephen, while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

WBS:

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

WEB:

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

YLT:

and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'

Acts 7:59 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 9:14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name."

Acts 9:21 All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, "Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?"

Acts 22:16 'Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'

Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

2 Timothy 2:22 Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

7:59 Stoned Stephen. Repeated to show that in the storm of stones he committed himself to Jesus.

WES:

7:59 And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit - This is the literal translation of the words, the name of God not being in the original. Nevertheless such a solemn prayer to Christ, in which a departing soul is thus committed into his hands, is such an act of worship, as no good man could have paid to a mere creature; Stephen here worshipping Christ in the very same manner in which Christ worshipped the Father on the cross.

MHC:

7:54-60 Nothing is so comfortable to dying saints, or so encouraging to suffering saints, as to see Jesus at the right hand of God: blessed be God, by faith we may see him there. Stephen offered up two short prayers in his dying moments. Our Lord Jesus is God, to whom we are to seek, and in whom we are to trust and comfort ourselves, living and dying. And if this has been our care while we live, it will be our comfort when we die. Here is a prayer for his persecutors. Though the sin was very great, yet if they would lay it to their hearts, God would not lay it to their charge. Stephen died as much in a hurry as ever any man did, yet, when he died, the words used are, he fell asleep; he applied himself to his dying work with as much composure as if he had been going to sleep. He shall awake again in the morning of the resurrection, to be received into the presence of the Lord, where is fulness of joy, and to share the pleasures that are at his right hand, for evermore.

CONC:

Calling Prayed Prayer Praying Receive Saying Spirit Stephen Stoned Stoning

Jesus Prayed Prayer Praying Receive Spirit Spirit Stephen Stoned Stoning

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