But they cried out with angry voices, and rushed upon him, and dragged him out of the council-room, and outside the wall of the city.  And there they threw stones upon him to kill him, while Stephen was kneeling down among the falling stones, and praying: 

“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!  Lord, lay not this sin up against them!”

And when he had said this, he fell asleep in death, the first to be slain for the gospel of Christ.