Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin1Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?” 2To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.
3‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’ Gen. 12:14“So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.