กิจการ 7:60
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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Study Note
Stephen's dying prayer 'Lord, lay not this sin to their charge' directly echoes Jesus's intercession from the cross in Luke 23:34 ('Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do'), establishing the first Christian martyr as a conscious imitator of his Lord's death. Luke's note that Stephen 'fell asleep' (koimētheis) introduces the Christian use of sleep as a euphemism for death, emphasizing confident expectation of resurrection rather than annihilation. The watching Saul of Tarsus (7:58; 8:1) provides a narrative hinge: Paul himself later claims that his persecution of Stephen haunted him (Acts 22:20; 26:10), and early Christian interpreters wondered whether Stephen's prayer was answered in Paul's conversion. Augustine wrote that 'the Church owes Paul to Stephen's prayer.'
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And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.
And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.
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