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Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.
For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
‘But I said, “Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in you imprisoned and beaten.
All who heard him were astounded and said, ‘Isn’t this the man in Jerusalem who was causing havoc for those who called on this name and came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests? ’
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Yet you have dishonoured the poor. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into court?
Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
When her owners realised that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.