They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Parallel translations
- WEB They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- KJV And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
- NKJV and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- NASB When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- NLT and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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Quick answer
They cast Stephen out and stoned him, with witnesses laying their cloaks at the feet of Saul. Stephen is martyred, and Saul, the future apostle Paul, is first introduced.
Overview
Stephen is dragged outside the city and stoned, in keeping with the law's procedure for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14; Deuteronomy 17:7). The mention of Saul, at whose feet the witnesses laid their garments, marks the entrance of the man God would later transform into the apostle Paul. God's grace would one day reach even this consenting persecutor.
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- Acts 22:20And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’
- Acts 8:1And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
- Acts 6:13where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
- Lev 24:14–16“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
- Luke 4:29They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.
- 1 Kgs 21:13And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
- Acts 22:4I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
- Deut 17:7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deut 13:9–10Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
- Num 15:35And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
- John 10:23–26and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
- Acts 6:11Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
- Heb 13:12–13And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- Acts 9:1–19Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
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