Acts 7:58 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵⁸ They threw him out of the city and stoned him [to death]. Those who witnessed [the incident] placed their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁸ and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁸ Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him, and the witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. [Acts 22:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁸ and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Common English Bible

⁵⁸ threw him out of the city, and began to stone him. The witnesses placed their coats in the care of a young man named Saul.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁸ And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out and said, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

Acts 7:58 Cross References

Luke 4:29

They rose up and threw Jesus out of the city, leading Him to the top of the hill on which the city was built, in order to throw Him down [from a cliff].

Acts 22:20

and when your witness Stephen was killed, I stood there, approving [of it] and [even] guarding the clothing of those who stoned him to death.’

Acts 22:23

And while the people shouted, waved around [torn] clothing and threw dust into the air,

Acts 22:4

And I persecuted this ‘Way’ [even to the point of] putting people to death. [I had] both men and women bound [in chains] and locked up in prisons.

Acts 26:10

So, I was doing this in Jerusalem, having received [my] authority from the leading priests. I both imprisoned many of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people] and [even] voiced my approval when they were put to death [See 8:1].

Acts 6:11

Then they enlisted men to say [i.e., to testify falsely against Stephen, verse 13], “We heard him criticizing Moses and [even] God.”

Acts 6:13

They had arranged for the false witnesses to say, “This man will not stop speaking against the Temple and the Law of Moses,

Acts 7:57

But they shouted loudly and refused to listen, and then all of them rushed at him.

Acts 8:1

And Saul was in full agreement with Stephen being put to death. And a great persecution broke out against the Jerusalem church, and all the disciples, except the apostles, were scattered throughout the districts of Judea and Samaria.