“Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?”
At this they covered their ears and, yelling at a loud voice, all rushed at him together - the Sanhedrin's response to Stephen's testimony is to 'cover their ears' (kateichon ta ōta, held their ears shut), refusing to hear. The violent reaction ('yelling at a loud voice, all rushed at him together') is mob violence, not juridical procedure. They become the very people Stephen has described: rejecting God's word with violence.
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