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Acts 7:58

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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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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].

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.’

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

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.

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].

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

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

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

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.




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