Acts 7:58
and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
57And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;
59And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Cross References
Leviticus 24:14Lead the reviler outside the camp; and all that heard [him] shall lay their hands upon his head, and the whole assembly shall stone him.
Deuteronomy 13:9but thou shalt in any case kill him: thy hand shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people;
1 Kings 21:13And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
John 10:23And Jesus walked in the temple in the porch of Solomon.
Acts 6:13And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;
Acts 9:1But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:55-60
Stephen's Martyrdom; Stephen's Dying Prayer. 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of… Read the whole commentary →