Acts 7:58
and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning [him]—and the witnesses put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul—
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In Context
57And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and rushed with one accord on him,
59and they were stoning Stephen, [as he was] calling and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”;
Cross References
Leviticus 24:14“Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp; and all those hearing have laid their hands on his head, and all the congregation has stoned him.
Deuteronomy 13:9But you surely kill him; your hand is on him in the first place to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;
1 Kings 21:13and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit opposite him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king”; and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;
John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,
Acts 6:13they also set up false witnesses, saying, “This one does not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the Law,
Acts 9:1And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the LORD, having gone to the chief 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 →