Acts 8:3
But Saul laid waste the church, entering house after house, and dragging both men and women, committed them to prison.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
4They, therefore, that were scattered, went abroad, preaching the word.
Cross References
Acts 9:1BUT Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Acts 22:3And he says: I am a Jew, born indeed in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel, according to the strictness of the law of the fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.
Acts 26:9I therefore thought to myself, that I ought to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
Galatians 1:13For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,
1 Timothy 1:13who was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and overbearing. 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 →