God removed him and made David the king. Here’s what God said about him: ‘David, the son of Jesse, is a man dear to my heart. He will do everything I want him to do.’
“Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there will be a bad smell, because Lazarus has been in that tomb for four days.”
Brothers and sisters, we want you to know what happens to those who die. We don’t want you to mourn, as other people do because they don’t have any hope.
Saul had agreed that Stephen should die. On that day an attack began against the church in Jerusalem. The believers, except for the apostles, were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.