Acts 8:3
But Saul attempted to destroy the church; entering every house, and dragging men and women, he delivered them up to prison.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2But devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
4Then they that were dispersed went everywhere preaching the word.
Cross References
Acts 9:1And Saul, still breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest,
Acts 22:3I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet educated in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed according to the strict discipline of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as you all are this day.
Acts 26:9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
Galatians 1:13For you have heard of my former mode of life in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste;
1 Timothy 1:13me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly 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 →