While the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them.
They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to his farm, another to his business;
The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire.
For he will be given up to the Gentiles, mocked, insulted and spat upon;
Saul approved of his being put to death. On that very day a great persecution broke out against the Church which was in Jerusalem; and its members, with the exception of the Apostles, were all scattered over the districts of Judea and Samaria.
Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.