Acts 8:3
And Saul persecuted the church of God, entering houses, and dragging forth men and women and committing them to prison.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
2And believing men gathered up and buried Stephen. And they lamented over him greatly.
4And they who were dispersed, travelled about and preached the word of God.
Cross References
Acts 9:1And Saul was still full of threats and deadly hatred against the disciples of our Lord.
Acts 22:3I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers; and I was zealous for God, as ye also all are.
Acts 26:9For I myself, at first, resolved in my own mind, that I would perpetrate many adverse things against the name of Jesus the Nazarean.
Galatians 1:13For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, and destroyed it:
1 Timothy 1:13me I say, who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a reviler; but I obtained mercy, because I did it while ignorant and without faith.
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 →