Stephen is stoned to death but not after preaching one more time. His speech to the religious leaders is meant to show that everything that God has done up till now points to Jesus. But, the leaders are stiff-necked, so tradition bound that they could not hear anything good.
Notice that Stephen experiences God in his witness. He is successful by God's standards and joyful. Note how worldly success does not always coincide with God's brand of success. To be successful, we are to be faithful. Faithful means being true to God and to what God made in us (gifts and circumstances.) This is true stewardship.
A religious leader names Saul watches everybody's coats while they stone Stephen. We will see Saul (Paul) again later.
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