Acts 7 · a question people ask
The high priest asks, "Are these things so?" (7:1). What does Stephen say to that?
His words don't begin with yes or no. They begin, "Brothers and fathers, listen." (7:2), and run on, as the WEB's quotation marks show, to "You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!" (7:53). In between he tells of Abraham, Joseph and Moses, of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and of the house Solomon built (7:2-50), and then he speaks to those hearing him (7:51-53). Neither Stephen nor the chapter says how his words bear on the high priest's question, and these notes don't either.
The verses
“The high priest said, “Are these things so?” He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,”
““You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!””