Acts 8:3
But Saul was ravaging the church, entering from house to house. Dragging both men and women, he gave them over to prison.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And devout men arranged to bury Stephen, and they made great lamentation over him.
4Indeed therefore those who were scattered abroad passed through proclaiming the good-news, the word.
Cross References
Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest,
Acts 22:3I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.
Acts 26:9Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,
Galatians 1:13For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it.
1 Timothy 1:13the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.
Matthew Henry on Acts 8:2-4
Persecution of the Church. 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. In these verses we have, I. Something more… Read the whole commentary →