They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 22:20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
- Acts 8:1Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
- Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- Lev 24:14–16“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- Luke 4:29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
- 1 Kgs 21:13The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
- Acts 22:4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
- Deut 17:7The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deut 13:9–10but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
- Num 15:35Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
- John 10:23–26It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
- Acts 6:11Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
- Heb 13:12–13Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
- Acts 9:1–19But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
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